Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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.…
Fallacy
A shadow cast by something invisible / falls on the white cover of a book / lying…
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 who / You feared to…
Spring Twilight After Penance
Let’s say you’ve just come / From confession. Late sun / Pours through the budding trees /…
For an English Teacher
You died, but it was not your words that faltered. / You’d husbanded the language all your…
While We’re At It
H. Richard Niebuhr taught at Yale Divinity School for many decades. In 1953, he made the following…
Briefly Noted
A Grand Slam for God:A Journey from Baseball Star to Catholic Priestby burke masterword on fire, 192…
Letters—May 2025
Two delightful essays in the March issue, by Nikolas Prassas (“Large Language Poetry,” March 2025) and Gary…
