Arts & Letters
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Neither Girlboss nor Tradwife
Iwasn’t supposed to like Yesteryear, which is why I was surprised, and a little embarrassed, to discover…
Creating an American Mythos
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Matthew Mehan joins…
How to Belong Without Losing Oneself
Whenever someone like Candace Owens or Nick Fuentes posts “ragebait,” it’s not difficult to predict how my…
Can These Bones Live?
The Saturday after Easter, on a cloudless morning, I fell and shattered my left elbow while taking…
Paul Celan’s Via Negativa
In the twentieth century the messengers shot themselves. Most did so metaphorically, of course, though a few…
Kabbalah and the Future (ft. Roger Simon)
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Roger L. Simon…
The Michael Connelly Literary Universe
If you are a longtime reader of this column, you know of my frustration with the routine…
C. S. Lewis’s Philosophy of Gender
Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve:C. S. Lewis’s Images of Genderby joshua phillip herring234 pages, davenant press,…
Quantitative Judgments Don’t Apply
For years I have aspired to read Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy. But bound together the…
Delicious Longing
One day around 1836, in the ancient city of Dijon, the young French poet Aloysius Bertrand was…
Disney Adulting (ft. Veronica Clarke)
In this episode, Veronica Clarke joins Germán and Virginia (who are subbing in for R. R. Reno)…
Tennyson’s Poetic Faith
Richard Holmes’s new biography, The Boundless Deep, depicts how Alfred Lord Tennyson absorbed the scientific discoveries of…
Letters—June/July 2026
The sentimental images painted of proud, tight-knit communities slowly crumbling away are compelling, but I have to…
Briefly Noted
What if Flannery O’Connor had been forced to live through Australia’s COVID-19 lockdowns and its surrounding political…
Birds
I wait for themthis dark spun dawn,kinglet, titmouse, nuthatch, wren,names so sweet on winter’s frozen tongue,such feathered…
