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A vagabond, seduced by impish godsTo jaywalk the downtown interstate, is dead.Addled with booze, he managed against the oddsTo hit rush hour, lifting, one woman said, That slow-down-buddy, wait-a-minute handBums use...
A Tragic Bent
Fragile Objects: Short Stories by katy carl wiseblood books, 318 pages, $15 In her collection of engaging and acutely observed short stories, Fragile Objects, Katy Carl shows a debt...
An Apostle of Literature
In the fall of 2021, a student at the University of Dallas asked me to give a tribute to Dr. Louise Cowan, one of the most famous faculty members...
The Poem Remembers
Why Homer Matters by adam nicolson henry holt and co., 320 pages, $30 Homer on the Gods and Human Virtue: Creating the Foundations of Classical Civilization by peter j....
Search Me, O God
What is most alarming about popular young adult novelist Cory Doctorow’s vision is the understanding of God that he proffers. Feeling the indifference of the universe does not plunge...
From the June/July First Things: “Search Me, O God”
What is most alarming about popular young adult novelist Cory Doctorow’s vision is the understanding of God that he proffers. Feeling the indifference of the universe does not plunge...
Reading Literature Faithfully
Christianity and Literature by David Lyle Jeffrey and Gregory P. Maillet InterVarsity, 292 pages, $24 In undertaking a work called Christianity and Literature: Philosophical Foundations and Critical Practice ,...
For Lucia, on Her Confirmation
In Houston once, the candles running out Before we got to Easter Vigil (late), I held you up instead, and thought about The name you sometimes hate. I think...
Pieties and Pixels
Last May and June, our daughter Therese and two friends, all a year out of college, walked for over six hundred miles on the millennium-old pilgrimage route from southern...
