Arts & Letters
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The Evolution of Homeschooling
Skipping School: A History of American Homeschooling and How It Went Mainstreamby dixie dillon laneeerdmans, 216 pages,…
Old Wisdom, New Distractions: New and Notable Books
As the mores of daily life in the twenty-first century change every month or two with the…
Willa Cather’s Pioneering Women
Like models in a fashion show, gaudy but unfulfilling icons of femininity parade before the women of…
The Man Who Built the Trojan Horse
Tourism makes fact seem fiction. I feel confident Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, and I…
Classics v. Classics
The furious debate about Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey has revealed an unexpected fact: Many people take Homer seriously,…
The Summer Reading List: 2026
A 2025 YouGov poll revealed some interesting factoids about Americans’ reading habits—or lack thereof. Forty percent of…
To Live Fittingly
Why do the humanities face such a hostile climate? In part it’s because academics have excluded ordinary,…
The Sun Also Rises at 100
The Hemingway style—terse, direct, formidable, in both prose and personal deportment—dominated American literature and the native ideal…
The Critic as Artist
In this episode, Dana Gioia joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his…
A Rudderless Odyssey
There is much to like about Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey. The movie is visually stunning; the set pieces,…
The Dot, The Dash, and Everything Between
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Florence Hazrat joins…
All Labor Is Labor
The Elizabethan commonplace comparing creative production to pregnancy and birth is baked into the English language. We…
Asters
The asters bloom amid late-summer heat,Low-lying stars that will not linger longAnd bend their sprays beneath the…
Early Arrival
Last year we laid squares of sodDown in our bare yard. At first,Pale, slender spears grew tall…
Centaur
The Etruscan centaur holds up his right hand,not palm outward as if to stop chariot trafficor solemnly…
