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To Hell with Notre Dame?

Matthew Walther

I first visited the University of Notre Dame du Lac (to use its proper inflated style) in 2017 as a guest of some friends in the law school. By...

The Last Great Homilist

Matthew Walther

Ronald Knox:A Man for All Seasonsedited by francesca bugliani knoxpontifical institute of medieval studies, 416 pages, $65 The greatest writer of English prose in the last century, P. G....

​Stardust to Stardust

Matthew Walther

I’m at the corner of Broadway and West 73rd Street trying to decide whether the security guard at the building next door dislikes me. Earlier he was giving me...

Champagne for All

Matthew Walther

A Scent of Champagne: 8,000 Champagnes Tasted and Ratedby richard juhlinskyhorse publishing, 400 pages, $95 Lord Keynes regretted very little, but he once confided to Noel Annan that he...

A Reality Novel

Matthew Walther

The Once and Future King by t. h. white penguin galaxy, 736 pages, $30 Terence Hanbury White died aboard ship in the port of Piraeus in 1964 on his...

Ghost of a Rose

Matthew Walther

Sir Thomas Browne: A Lifeby reid barbouroxford, 552 pages, $125 Thomas Browneedited by kevin killeenoxford, 1,018 pages, $160 Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682) is one of the most bizarre and...

Deathless Truths

Matthew Walther

Scholia to an Implicit Text: Bilingual Selected Editionby nicolás gómez-dávilavillegas editores, 392 pages, $24 Nicolás Gómez-Dávila’s name is not one to conjure with on these shores or, probably, any...