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Everyone’s saying it. These are uncertain times. As our founding editors once wrote, “At every historical moment, the contemporary is afflicted by the crippling conceit of its utter novelty....

Balm in Gilead: A Theological Dialogue with Marilynne Robinsonedited by timothy larsen and keith l. johnson ivp academic, 232 pages, $28 In 1901, Rev. Maltbie Babcock wrote in a...

Maryann Corbett is the featured poet for the fifth annual First Things poetry reading. Though she began her career in the academy as a trained linguist and medievalist, she...

I was in Washington, D.C., a few weeks ago for our intellectual retreat on “The Common Good.” The first evening, I sat at the registration table to field questions...

Jessica Hooten Wilson recently commented that because author Marilynne Robinson views all of created life as a sacred gift, her worldview “begins to sound more Catholic than Protestant.” But...

A Field Guide to the English Clergy: A Compendium of Diverse Eccentrics, Pirates, Prelates and Adventurers; All Anglican, Some Even Practising by Fergus Butler-Gallie Oneworld, 192 pages, $20 Ah,...

The Five Quintets by micheal o’siadhail baylor, 381 pages, $34.95 Sartre famously wrote that “hell is other people,” but for the poet Micheal O’Siadhail, hell is a highly specific...

Last winter I attended a variety show based on The Brothers Karamazov. Between sketches from the novel, the actors would change into street clothes, and thus out of character,...