Arts & Letters
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Fjord’s Cold Reality
Fjord, Romanian director Cristian Mungiu’s Palme d’Or–winning film, is the kind of movie you desperately want to…
A Culture of Parricide
I learned a new word the other day: déploration. It’s the French, directly from the Latin, for “lament.”…
Prime Rib of Unicorn
Of all the titles I’ve been tracking this year, the one I am most delighted to have…
The Real World of Francisco de Zurbarán
Throughout the summer, I visited the National Gallery in London at least once a week. This is…
Souls at Stake
As the realistic English novel was emerging in a glorious birth amid the intellectual and moral tumult…
A Woman’s East of Eden
Zoe Kazan’s seven-part Netflix adaptation of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden brings a woman’s sensibility to a…
The Chariot Burials
Wheeling through the clotted earth, / Bronze, bone, and leather clumped in clay...
William of St. Thierry
“Where love and understanding join, hearts are tranquil, / They rise above the turmoil of this world…
Briefly Noted
Sir Andrew Motion is former poet laureate of the United Kingdom and cofounder of the Poetry Archive...
Recovering Christian Humanism
Confusion over what it means to be human, and over whether human nature has an intrinsic moral…
The New Sense and Sensibility Lacks Austen’s Comic Vision
Georgia Oakley’s new Sense and Sensibility film adaptation is a tragedy. Not in the sense that it…
Serial Liar, Serial Comma
How would you write a public letter that you know will become front-page news? Would you write…
Shakespeare Under Stalin’s Shadow
”We wish that we could pass this play over, and say nothing about it. All that we…
Roger Scruton’s Eternal Youth
In this episode, First Things senior editor Dan Hitchens joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk…
Grandmother, What Big Teeth You Have
Many years ago, I wrote a piece for this magazine called “Grim Tales.” At the time, I…
