Arts & Letters

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Lift My Chin, Lord 

Jennifer Reeser

Lift my chin, Lord,Say to me,“You are not whoYou feared to be,Not Hecate, quite,With howling sound,Torch held…

While We’re At It

R. R. Reno

H. Richard Niebuhr taught at Yale Divinity School for many decades. In 1953, he made the following…

Briefly Noted

A Grand Slam for God:A Journey from Baseball Star to Catholic Priestby burke masterword on fire, 192…

Letters

Two delightful essays in the March issue, by Nikolas Prassas (“Large Language Poetry,” March 2025) and Gary…

Spring Twilight After Penance 

Sally Thomas

Let’s say you’ve just comeFrom confession. Late sunPours through the budding treesThat mark the brown creek washing Itself…

For an English Teacher 

Matthew Buckley Smith

You died, but it was not your words that faltered. You’d husbanded the language all your life, And when…

What We’ve Been Reading—March

The Editors

Virginia Aabram I’m reading two books this Lent, the first of which is a reminder of what…

The Rise and Fall of Urban Frump

Jason M. Baxter

In 2021 a friend sent me a video of a bizarre fashion show. The models paraded through…

How Disney Killed Snow White

Mary Rose Somarriba

Disney’s live action version of Snow White, a spectacular flop at the box office, continues to get…

Snow What?

The Editors

The editors discuss the live-action Snow White, Disney’s biggest flop in recent memory. Did the star hijack…

Faith in the Modern Age: New and Notable Books

Mark Bauerlein

Lots of new books are documenting the difficulties of faith at the present time, as well as…

Omnis in Scripturas

Rhys Laverty

Out in some wild place, there stands a prophet. He is alone with the elements and his…

Andy Warhol’s Sacraments

Stephen G. Adubato

Andy Warhol’s reproductions of popular brand logos have sparked debate as to whether he is playfully critiquing…

In Search of Turkish Delight

Valerie Stivers

In a final scene of ­Dorothy Sayers’s 1930 novel Strong ­Poison, a murderer devours a large quantity…

My Family and Other Gnostics

John Byron Kuhner

A funny story is almost never improved by an assiduous concern for facts. Case in point: Gerald…