Arts & Letters
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The Cathedral as Heaven
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Bishop Robert Barron…
Stories That Tell the U.S. Catholic Story
Fiction can often convey the human texture of a time and place better than scholarly works of…
The Last Grand Master from a Grander Age
The death of Sir Anthony Kenny on August 3, at the age of ninety-five, broke one of…
Finding Ourselves in Faerie
The average secularist is apt to dismiss belief in ghosts or aliens as eccentric. But if you…
A Feast at the End of the World
Margaret Kennedy—novelist, playwright, historian, critic—is having another moment. Feted and famous after the 1924 publication of her…
Vampires and Values on Broadway
The Lost Boys, a Broadway musical adapted from the 1980s vampire flick, opens with a flickering specter.…
Bourdain’s World Was Not Enough
In his breakout 2000 memoir, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, Anthony Bourdain recounts his early…
The Evolution of Homeschooling
Skipping School: A History of American Homeschooling and How It Went Mainstreamby dixie dillon laneeerdmans, 216 pages,…
Old Wisdom, New Distractions: New and Notable Books
As the mores of daily life in the twenty-first century change every month or two with the…
Willa Cather’s Pioneering Women
Like models in a fashion show, gaudy but unfulfilling icons of femininity parade before the women of…
The Man Who Built the Trojan Horse
Tourism makes fact seem fiction. I feel confident Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, and I…
Classics v. Classics
The furious debate about Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey has revealed an unexpected fact: Many people take Homer seriously,…
The Summer Reading List: 2026
A 2025 YouGov poll revealed some interesting factoids about Americans’ reading habits—or lack thereof. Forty percent of…
To Live Fittingly
Why do the humanities face such a hostile climate? In part it’s because academics have excluded ordinary,…
The Sun Also Rises at 100
The Hemingway style—terse, direct, formidable, in both prose and personal deportment—dominated American literature and the native ideal…
