Arts & Letters
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Stevenson’s Treasure
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) belongs at the head of a select company of writers renowned in their…
Letters
As a forty-eight-year-old who graduated from high school in 1995, Trevin Wax’s “We Were Jesus Freaks”...
Mark Twain’s Religion
In 2014, when Kevin Malone’s opera Mysterious 44 premiered in Manchester, England, the production featured narrative voiceovers…
On the Pleasure of Admiring
The great essayist William Hazlitt observed that there is pleasure in hating. “Without something to hate,” he…
The Lonely Passion of Reginald Pole
A year after I became a Catholic, when my teenaged son was thinking about college, we visited…
In the Footsteps of Aeneas
Gian Lorenzo Bernini had only just turned twenty when he finished his sculpture of Aeneas, the mythical…
The Wallet
Oxblood, bifold, kept In a back bedroom Closet all these years, It dates to my time Of…
Another Madonna
Many may not notice the young rabbit, caughtin the thicket of brush near the bottom left-hand corner,…
Birdwatching
The people I want most to like all do it. I listen to their talk of swifts and…
The Burial of the Faithful
You want a day as boring as a shrub, a high, departing plane the only sound...
Snowdrops
A gray ordeal, these winters wrapped in scarves…
Another Year, Another Book Stack
Lists, lists, lists—how they proliferate. But it just so happens that I love lists, and have done…
Shakespeare and the City
Recently I checked into a pleasant, fairly sterile Marriott in Shoreditch ahead of my London debut as…
Semiquincentennial Prep with HBO
Having recently lamented in this space that book reading is on life support in these United States,…
Why Creators Convert
Conversion is a gift of grace, yet human hands participate in God’s providence. In her new book,…
