Arts & Letters
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Theater of the Divine
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Peter Kreeft joins in…
An Iconoclastic Inferno
The Divine Comedy: InfernoBy Dante Alighieri, Translated by Jason M. BaxterAngelico, 260 pages, $19.95 Jason M. Baxter,…
The Old Testament Roots of American Christian Music
One need not be a historian of the Puritans and their quest for a New Jerusalem to…
Make Buildings Beautiful Again
In this episode, Justin Shubow joins Rusty Reno at The Editor’s Desk to talk about his essay,…
Past and Future Hopes
A year ago at this time, I devoted a column to “Hopes and Wishes for 2024”—mostly hopes,…
Paleofuturism
Dawn’s Early Light:Taking Back Washington to Save Americaby kevin d. robertsbroadside, 304 pages, $32 When Kevin Roberts…
Declaring Independence
American Heretics:Religious Adversaries of Liberal Orderby jerome e. copulskyyale, 384 pages, $40 In the summer of 1775,…
The Church of Empathy
Circle of Hope:A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Churchby eliza griswoldfarrar, straus and…
The Death and Life of Bohemia
Talkin’ Greenwich Village:The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capitalby david brownehachette, 352 pages,…
Goethe’s Bargain
Goethe:His Faustian Lifeby a. n. wilsonbloomsbury, 416 pages, $35 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is among the most…
What to Remember
I had thought of calling this piece “Against Memory.” Hyperbolic, perhaps, but I had my reasons. I’ve started…
Exemplary
A vagabond, seduced by impish godsTo jaywalk the downtown interstate, is dead.Addled with booze, he managed against…
Epistle to a Former Friend
When I say a prayerfor the wicked I despairand think, of course, of youand how your late-night…
Saint Gobnait of the Honeybees
She’d have naught of silvery turnings like fish,The Celtic knot of wedded, bedded love.She stole away to…
Seeing Sacred Scripture
Is there a visual language to Sacred Scripture? Some passages of the Bible have become inextricably entwined…
