Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Second Death
Between our physical demise—when the soul, like a savedpage from a trashed notebook, lifts in the handof…
Waugh Against the Fogeys
On June 17, 1953, the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper wrote to a friend: “I am now preparing a…
The Great Excommunicator
Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed Americaby sam tanenhausrandom house, 1,040 pages, $40 When Sam…
Goodbye, Saffron
Vanishing Landscapes: The Story of Plants and How We Lost Themby bonnie lander johnsonhodder and stoughton, 320…
Forecast
How long can two people stay togetherwith this in the news and that in the sky? A…
The Substance of Our Lives
While I was in college, the local priest got me to come along with him on his…
Rule Zombie Britannia
The U.K. is isolated, as European leaders seek to beat off the instability and irrationality radiating from…
A Fresh Look at the Old Testament: New and Notable Books
It might be the Old Testament, but it’s certainly inspiring a lot of new books. Here are…
Last Call for Submissions to the First Things Poetry Prize
The second annual First Things Poetry Prize is open for submissions until June 30. Dana Gioia is this year’s…
Jesus After the Critics
Quests for the “historical Jesus” are as old as Christianity itself. The claims of Jesus’s earliest followers…
On Flannery O’Connor’s Centenary
How appropriate that Flannery O’Connor should have been born on the Solemnity of the Annunciation: the liturgical…
Metabolizing the Beautiful
Why Literature Still Matters:Beauty After the Apocalypseby jason m. baxtercassiodorus, 82 pages, $16 My father, a mild-mannered…
The Future of Reading
More is read now in a year than was read before in a hundred years.” So declared…
Classical Renewal by Research
The research pursued these days in university humanities departments does not, as a rule, enjoy high esteem…
The Death of Mass Literacy
In this episode, Wessie du Toit joins Rusty Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his…
