Arts & Letters

R. R. Reno As a teenager, I was an aspiring rock climber. At eighteen, I found myself…

A cohort of American Catholic patrons of the arts sense the time is ripe for another Renaissance.…

Tony Tulathimutte’s breakthrough short story “The Feminist,” published in the literary magazine n+1, generated significant online controversy…

Do you remember those illustrations (which used to be very common) that showed, say, a deliberately jokey…

Zero visibility possible,you read aloud. The logic’s water-tight:there’s always a good chance for lack of sight.  We…

The living soul will demand life, the living soul won’t listen to mechanics, the living soul is…

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. David Rieff joins in…

At the beginning of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, Vincentio, the Duke of Vienna, withdraws from the city…

Karl Ove ­Knausgaard treats the stage business of life with gravity, seeking in it, perhaps, some key…

Who even watches the Oscars?” said First Things editor R. R. Reno when I proposed to write…

Sometimes when I am starting a column, I look back to see what I wrote for this…

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Cassandra Nelson joins in…

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Michael Fontaine joins in…

The Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in the nation’s capital is a magnificent neo-Gothic…

What does it mean to believe something? Is it possible for a person to profess an idea…