Arts & Letters
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Letters
I appreciate Liel Leibovitz’s wanting to look at the light regarding artificial intelligence...
Living with Wittgenstein
In the autumn of 1944, Ludwig Wittgenstein noticed a young doctoral student in attendance at his lectures…
Briefly Noted
Kevin James and Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke rarely appear side by side, even in print—the back-cover endorsements…
How Kanye Went Nazi
Last year, Kanye West—sometimes known as Ye—released a song titled “Nigga Heil Hitler.” The music video featured…
That by which we rise
That by which we riseis that by which we fall. This comes as no surprise at all.But paradox…
Homer’s Childhood
When Homer was a little boy,He never had a single toy.All his play was in his mind;In…
A Small Hotel in Florence
Two twin-like English sisters ran the place. When we checked in, one asked, “Is it the case .…
Song to Be Sung at the Resurrection of a Buck Killed by a Car
Wise, you fur-framed ghost.Rise, you antler-crowned king.Let sinew and bone stitch together again.Let ears and tail be…
Gulf Burden
And now the storm has passed but night has not yet come.The sky is yellow, vast and…
I Run and Pray the Rosary
for my friend Greg.Cancer is trying to kill him,and so I begfor chemo to save him,a respite…
Pitch for a Catholic Novel
Imagine a middle-aged white man in good clothes waiting for a morning train at a station of…
The Qur’an’s Christians
Hollywood released quite a few movies about Jesus in the 1960s and ’70s. Not all got rave…
Why Can’t Conservatives Create Art?
Modern conservatives recognize their duty to reverse the devastation wrought by nearly a century of progressive cultural…
Announcing Portico: A New Literary Quarterly
First Things is pleased to announce the publication of its new print literary quarterly, Portico, starting in…
Antoni Gaudí’s Icon of the Universe
This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the death of Antoni Gaudí, the great medievalist-modernist architect from…
