Arts & Letters
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Wake Up Dead Man Captures the Beauty of Priestly Ministry
The famous detective Benoit Blanc is known for solving impossible mysteries. When he is called to upstate…
Diagnosing a Disordered Age: New and Notable Books
"Technology's power to shape thinking should matter to every sensible person, but it should especially matter for…
The Genius of Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus
Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus, which aired its finale on Christmas Eve, has all the characteristically ironic notes you…
Caravaggio and Us
Nicolas Poussin, the greatest French artist of the seventeenth century, once said that Caravaggio had come into…
John Wilson’s Year of Reading
This list would have been different a couple of months ago, or yesterday—maybe even in the wee…
Divine Ballet
This fall, Arthouse2B, in partnership with Ballet Hartford, hosted a performance named “Ballet and the Theology Within”…
Christmas Spectacles, Good and Bad
This year marks the Radio City Rockettes’ one hundredth anniversary, and the annual Christmas Spectacular at Radio…
Harvard Loses a Giant
Two weeks ago, Prof. James Hankins gave his last lecture at Harvard before his departure to University…
When Life Ends Mid-Sentence
It was Gerstäcker’s mother. She held out her trembling hand to K. and had him sit down…
In Praise of Translation
The circumstances of my life have been such that I have moved, since adolescence, in a borderland…
Artful Faith (ft. Stephen Auth)
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Stephen Auth joins…
Letters
As a Protestant, I began Valerie Stivers’s “How I Learned to Love Confession” (November 2025) mentally recalling…
Canticle of All Creatures
This poem was written by St. Francis of Assisi, and translated by Dana Gioia. Most high, all…
Address Book
The leather binding, torn and askew,is barely joined by brittle pieces of Scotch tape. And the names…
The Ruin
Remorseless sun stunts the dew Glistening towers of tainted glassignite and blister …
