Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
What We’ve Been Reading—May
R. R. Reno A friend recommended Balcony in the Forest by Julien Gracq. The French writer published…
Law on Film
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Professor Stanley Fish joins…
Why Homeschool?
My father used to quiz us at the kitchen table, my older brother and me, during dinner.…
Converting Beauty into Prayer
A few weeks ago, I went to an Easter concert put on by a new nonprofit called…
An Outline of Trees
They rise above us, arching, spreading, thin Where trunk and bough give way to veining twig. We…
Fallacy
A shadow cast by something invisible falls on the white cover of a book lying on my…
Sleeping Through Life
Two chapters into Matthew Gasda’s The Sleepers, Mariko, a waitress and stage actress, gets into a spat…
Rebel Against the Cult of the Expert
For me, the end of the academic year is always bittersweet. The sweetness comes from seeing students…
Endless Shuffle
”The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and…
Song of Thanksgiving
On the cover of Nicholas Chong’s new book, The Catholic Beethoven, the skies are blue. That in…
Books and Baseball
Several weeks ago, in sync with the start of Major League Baseball’s 2025 season, the University of…
A Classical Insurgency
Why learn Latin? And by what means? Many professional classicists have no convincing answer to either question.…
Lift My Chin, Lord
Lift my chin, Lord,Say to me,“You are not whoYou feared to be,Not Hecate, quite,With howling sound,Torch held…
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…
