Arts & Letters
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Waugh Against the Fogeys
On June 17, 1953, the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper wrote to a friend: “I am now preparing a…
Math Is Erotic
The most shining moment of my education as a physics major at UC Santa Barbara came in…
Goodbye, Saffron
In A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, Barbara Tuchman wrote that the “people of the Middle…
The Best of Us Is Medieval
It has long been a custom among commentators that, when looking for a comparator that will blacken…
Forecast
How long can two people stay togetherwith this in the news and that in the sky? A…
Leavers, Yearners, and Returners
You could fill a small library with books from the last twenty years devoted to the erosion…
The Great Excommunicator
When Sam Tanenhaus agreed in 1998 to write a biography of William F. Buckley Jr., it would…
NovelCon
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Christopher J. Scalia joins…
Second Death
Between our physical demise—when the soul, like a savedpage from a trashed notebook, lifts in the handof…
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…
