Arts & Letters
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The Women Joining the New Right
According to “The Women Leaving the New Right,” a viral piece by Sam Adler-Bell in New York…
Living with Wittgenstein
In the autumn of 1944, Ludwig Wittgenstein noticed a young doctoral student in attendance at his lectures…
Lessons from the Eternal City
Regular First Things readers will know that one of my preoccupations is the dehumanization that grips our…
The Oscars’ Unlikely Tribute to Motherhood
On Sunday night, while accepting her Academy Award for Best Actress, Hollywood star Jessie Buckley spoke lovingly…
The Parasocial Generation
When Technoblade, a popular Minecraft streamer, announced his cancer diagnosis in August 2021, the outpouring of support…
How to Write a Russian Novel
The Prodigal of Leningradby daniel taylorparaclete press, 256 pages, $21.99 There is of course no generic “Russian…
Knausgaard’s Mephistopheles
Back in college, one of my literature professors once remarked that the first hundred pages of a…
I Run and Pray the Rosary
for my friend Greg.Cancer is trying to kill him,and so I begfor chemo to save him,a respite…
Letters—April 2026
I appreciate Liel Leibovitz’s wanting to look at the light regarding artificial intelligence...
Briefly Noted
Kevin James and Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke rarely appear side by side, even in print—the back-cover endorsements…
That by which we rise
That by which we riseis that by which we fall. This comes as no surprise at all.But paradox…
Homer’s Childhood
When Homer was a little boy,He never had a single toy.All his play was in his mind;In…
A Small Hotel in Florence
Two twin-like English sisters ran the place. When we checked in, one asked, “Is it the case .…
Song to Be Sung at the Resurrection of a Buck Killed by a Car
Rise, you fur-framed ghost.Rise, you antler-crowned king.Let sinew and bone stitch together again.Let ears and tail be…
Gulf Burden
And now the storm has passed but night has not yet come.The sky is yellow, vast and…
