Arts & Letters
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Evangelical Ruskin
2019 is the bicentennial year of John Ruskin’s birth, and he is suddenly all the rage. London’s…
Whose Midwest?
Finding a New Midwestern Historyedited by jon k. lauck, gleaves whitney, and joseph hogannebraska, 365 pages, $55.00…
Royal Fatalism
The Romanovs: 1613–1918by simon sebag montefiorevintage, 784 pages, $35 The Romanovs Under House Arrest: From the 1917…
Office Devotions
The internet may be a gift from God,As the Pope says, a utilityWe can manipulate but not…
Aleksandr the Great
Between Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile, 1974–1978by aleksandr solzhenitsynnotre dame, 452 pages, $35.00 It would…
Why I Assigned The Kingdom
Last week, a controversy erupted over a book I assigned in a five-student advanced literature seminar at…
The Faith of P. D. James
Day follows day, one sliding into the next, so that change is often imperceptible until something jolts…
The Virgin Whore and the Humorless Don
Much like oil and water, humor and liberal academia do not mix. Anyone who has spent time…
The Making of My Ántonia
This year marks the centenary of Willa Cather’s My Ántonia, and we can thank Viola Roseboro for…
The New Cool
More than any other filmmakers, the Coen brothers have wormed their way into my everyday. The Hudsucker…
Favorite Books of 2018
For many years when I was editing Books & Culture, I posted an annual list of favorites.…
In Midwinter
Long and lean and sharp of tooth comes winter in its chill,Deep and void the nights become,…
The Church’s Book
The Bible in a Disenchanted Age: The Enduring Possibility of Christian Faithby r. w. l. moberlybaker, 240…
Ad-Venting
I need tidings of comfort and of joy;Please play me “Hark, the Herald Angels Sing.”I don’t like…
Dare to Knock
The Kingdom by emmanuel carrère farrar, straus and giroux, 400 pages, $28 The genius and the apostle…
