Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Back to the Future
The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Successby ross douthatavid, 272 pages, $27…
A Gay Couple in the White House
Barring the unforeseen, Pete Buttigieg will not be the Democratic nominee. Though he will not win the…
Why Go To College?
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Johann Neem…
Yale Loses an Inspiration
Seaside, Florida, is one of the exemplary achievements of New Urbanism, the school of architecture that favors…
2019: Our Year in Books
We asked some of our writers to contribute a paragraph about the most memorable books they read…
Please Write This Novel
It may be presumptuous to suggest premises for novels (“Oh, somebody should write X,” which seems to…
Books for Christmas—2019
Resist the twitterization of thought—give books for Christmas! The following titles will delight, instruct, edify (or all…
Christmas Guide to Buying a Bible: 2019 Edition
In 2012, First Things asked me to suggest Bibles to give as gifts during the Christmas season.…
A Year of Reading: 2019
I’ve been doing this annual list for twenty years, and it has taken on a ritual quality.…
The Poets’ Favorite Season
One day in 1956, a poet was sitting at his desk, thinking back eighteen years. On an…
Coming Attractions for 2020
As I did last November, I want to tell you about a handful of books I’m particularly…
Defining “Evangelical”
Who Is an Evangelical?: The History of a Movement in Crisisby thomas s. kiddyale, 200 pages, $26…
On Wounded Shepherds
Wounded Shepherd: Pope Francis and His Struggle to Convert the Catholic Churchby austen ivereighhenry holt and co., 416…
All About Evangelicals
Lately I’ve been rereading and (with Wendy) listening to the stories collected in G. K. Chesterton’s The…
Fermata
Let us go then, up the long stairs and down the hall,Through…
