Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Spring Twilight After Penance
Let’s say you’ve just comeFrom confession. Late sunPours through the budding treesThat mark the brown creek washing Itself…
For an English Teacher
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
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
In 2021 a friend sent me a video of a bizarre fashion show. The models paraded through…
How Disney Killed Snow White
Disney’s live action version of Snow White, a spectacular flop at the box office, continues to get…
Snow What?
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
Lots of new books are documenting the difficulties of faith at the present time, as well as…
Omnis in Scripturas
Out in some wild place, there stands a prophet. He is alone with the elements and his…
Andy Warhol’s Sacraments
Andy Warhol’s reproductions of popular brand logos have sparked debate as to whether he is playfully critiquing…
In Search of Turkish Delight
In a final scene of Dorothy Sayers’s 1930 novel Strong Poison, a murderer devours a large quantity…
My Family and Other Gnostics
A funny story is almost never improved by an assiduous concern for facts. Case in point: Gerald…
What We’ve Been Reading—February
R. R. Reno As a teenager, I was an aspiring rock climber. At eighteen, I found myself…
The Catholics Reviving Renaissance-Style Arts Patronage
A cohort of American Catholic patrons of the arts sense the time is ripe for another Renaissance.…
Navigating the Battlefield of Modern Romance
Tony Tulathimutte’s breakthrough short story “The Feminist,” published in the literary magazine n+1, generated significant online controversy…
Books On My Mind
Do you remember those illustrations (which used to be very common) that showed, say, a deliberately jokey…
