B. D. McClay

Shaka, When the Walls Fell
Ian Bogost, The Atlantic

Existential Woodchucks
Jeffrey Sconce, Ludic Despair

The Mercy of Sickness before Death
D. G. Myers, Good Letters

Theology and Other Catholic Sports
David Cloutier, dotCommonweal

Sneak Peek: Lila
Marilynne Robinson, Work in Progress

The Death of Klinghoffer: If John Adams’s Opera Isn’t Antisemitic, How Can It Fan Antisemitism?
Tom Service, The Guardian

Philosophy Is A Bunch Of Empty Ideas: Interview With Peter Unger
Grace Boey, 3 Quarks Daily

Beauty Out of Madness
Theodore Dalrymple, The New Criterion

Champs-Elysées Film Festival Honors Indie Genius Whit Stillman
Talia Soghomonian, Collider

Criminal or Prisoner?
Eve Tushnet, Aleteia

In Two Michigan Villages, a Higher Calling Is Often Heard
Christina Capecchi, The New York Times

Here’s How To Teach The Liberal Arts To High Schoolers
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, Forbes

Is There Life After the ’60s?
Christopher Beha, The American Conservative

Geoffrey Hill and the poetry of ideas
Daniel Johnson, Standpoint

The Story of Pain: from Prayers to Painkillers
Nicholas Shakespeare, The Telegraph

Noma
Jacob Mikanowski, The Point

What is Literature?
Arthur Krystal, Harper’s

Sacred Art in Profane Institutions
William Newton, Blog of the Courtier

What is a Dude?
Anne Helen Petersen, Aeon

California’s Flyover Country
David Franz, The Hedgehog Review

Mary Beard’s Greece: A Walk on the Wise Side
Mary Beard, The Guardian

Book Review: ‘Rebbe’ by Joseph Telushkin and ‘My Rebbe’ by Adin Steinsaltz
Dara Horn, Wall Street Journal

How Losing My Daughter Changed My Faith
Kyle Cupp, The Daily Beast

The Last World Cup: After Brazil 2014, is the Tournament Finished?
Jason Cowley, The New Statesman

Is the Chinese Regime Changing its Policy Toward Christianity?
Peter Berger, The American Interest

Brutalism’s Bullies
Anthony Paletta, The Awl

The Troubling Case of Chris Hedges
Christopher Ketcham, The New Republic

Essayism and Modernity
Alan Wall, Fortnightly Review

Cult Writers
Oliver Harris, Times Literary Supplement

Sports Hate
Brian Strassburger, The Jesuit Post

Homeless and at Home in St. Francisville Peter Lawler, Postmodern Conservative In Praise of Typos John Higg, Us Vs Th3m A Type House Divided Jason Fagone, NY Mag Ayn Rand, Cat Fancier Mallory Ortberg, The Toast Meet David Brat, the Man who Brought Down House Majority Leader Eric Cantor Michael . . . . Continue Reading »

Inmates perform Shakespeare’s The Tempest at Grafton Correctional Institution
Stephanie Metzger, The Morning Journal

Victorian Occultism and the Art of Synesthesia
Benjamin Breen, The Appendix

Orange Is The New Black Spreads Empathy in All Directions
Todd VanDerWerff, The AV Club

Brief Notes on Science
Gonçalo M. Tavares, Asymptote

The Female Sufi Mystics of the Pankisi Gorge
Tara Isabella Burton, Al Jazeera America
(h/t: Tristyn Bloom)

An Interview with Ann Wroe, Obituaries Writer for The Economist
Isabelle Fraser, The Hairpin

Who Wants to Shoot an Elephant?
Wells Tower, GQ

How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Vladimir Jabotinsky
Adam Rovner, Jewish Daily Forward

Ever Wished That Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson Would Return to the Comics Page? Well, He Just Did.
Stephan Pastis, Pearls Before Swine

Working-Class Ballet
Simon Critchley, Roads & Kingdoms

Should a Mental Illness Mean You Lose Your Kid?
Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica

Thomas Hardy in Judea
Atar Hadari, Mosaic

Looking for Love in One of the World’s Tiniest Religions
Jihii Jolly, The Atlantic

The Many Lives of Aubrey Lee Price
Charles Bethea, Atlanta Magazine

Notes for the Stage
Aditi Sriram, Guernica