Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
2024: Our Year in Books
R. R. Reno I was in a Goodwill in Denver when my eyes fell upon a paperback…
Our Most Popular Articles of 2024
On the last day of the year, here’s a glance back at our most-read essays of 2024.…
The Poetry of Opera
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Dana Gioia joins in to…
A Year of Reading: 2024
A year ago, after a series of annual lists that grew longer and longer, I changed the…
Real Persons
How to Know a Person:The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seenby david brooksrandom house,…
Taking God Seriously
I first picked up a copy of First Things about fifteen years ago. I spent several years…
My Mother’s Teeth
My mother’s teeth were kept in a bottlemarked with the sign of the cross. I usedto shake…
Modernist Enchantment
Olivier Messiaen:A Critical Biographyby robert shollreaktion, 208 pages, $35 In May 1988, just under four years before…
Divorce in the Gospels
Remarriage in Early Christianityby A. Andrew DasEerdmans, 384 pages, $49.99 The translation of Biblical texts requires both…
Jordan Peterson’s “God”
We Who Wrestle with God:Perceptions of the Divineby Jordan B. PetersonPortfolio, 576 pages, $35 A man who disbelieved…
Maimonides for Today
The Guide to the Perplexed:A New Translationby moses maimonides, translated and with commentary by lenn e. goodman…
Iain McGilchrist’s New Era
Once, the story goes, man stood at the center of the universe. He looked in the mirror…
Stained Glass
My father holds a panel of glassbetween us: we are both bathed blue.Wordlessly, we let the light…
Books for Christmas—2024
A friend told me recently that bookstores were making something of a comeback. I hope that’s true,…
What Conclave Yearns For
The pope is dead. Sede vacante. From the round earth’s imagined corners come the 120 cardinal-electors, the progressive…
