Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Declaring Independence
American Heretics:Religious Adversaries of Liberal Orderby jerome e. copulskyyale, 384 pages, $40 In the summer of 1775,…
The Church of Empathy
Circle of Hope:A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Churchby eliza griswoldfarrar, straus and…
The Death and Life of Bohemia
Talkin’ Greenwich Village:The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capitalby david brownehachette, 352 pages,…
Goethe’s Bargain
Goethe:His Faustian Lifeby a. n. wilsonbloomsbury, 416 pages, $35 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is among the most…
What to Remember
I had thought of calling this piece “Against Memory.” Hyperbolic, perhaps, but I had my reasons. I’ve started…
Exemplary
A vagabond, seduced by impish gods / To jaywalk the downtown interstate, is dead. / Addled with…
Epistle to a Former Friend
When I say a prayer / for the wicked I despair / and think, of course, of…
Saint Gobnait of the Honeybees
She’d have naught of silvery turnings like fish, / The Celtic knot of wedded, bedded love. /…
Seeing Sacred Scripture
Is there a visual language to Sacred Scripture? Some passages of the Bible have become inextricably entwined…
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…
