Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
A Touching and Feeling Faith
Everything Happens for a Reason:And Other Lies I’ve Lovedby kate bowlerrandom house, 208 pages, $26 If the…
Rebuild Christchurch Basilica
In February 2011, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake devastated Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 185 people and damaging dozens of…
Air Turbulence and the Resurrection
If there’s anything Catholics in the United States should have learned over the past two decades, it’s…
Snowdrops
I planted snowdrops forty years agoWhen I was fourteen; early March they driftAcross the garden, poking through…
Life of the Artist
It’s said that Caravaggio was a creep,A pedophile to be precise, the kindWho lurked near schoolyards, and…
Letters
Pio’s No-No? My Jewish children are proud Americans born and raised in New York. When they were…
We Renounce the Old World
What They Saw in Americajames l. nolan, jr.cambridge university press, 2016, 299 pages I was twenty and…
Ecumenical Incorrectness
Roman but Not Catholic: What Remains at Stake 500 Years after the Reformation by kenneth j. collins…
Bros Against Humanity
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valleyby emily changportfolio, 320 pages, $28 Near the end…
Death and Dappled Hope
Promise Me, Dad:A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purposeby joe bidenflatiron books, 272 pages, $27 Many politicians’…
James and Melville, Two American Minds
In this series, the First Things junior fellows share mini-essays on their current reading endeavors. Connor GrubaughAssistant Editor Sociologists…
Extracurricular
“I only desire to find out knowledge . . . which may instruct me how to die…
Chatterley on Trial
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by d. h. lawrence macmillan, 432 pages, $12.99 Six weeks after a London criminal…
A Moderate Proposal
Faces of Moderation: The Art of Balance in an Age of Extremesby aurelian craiutupenn, 304 pages, $59.95…
Pagan Horror
Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reichby eric kurlanderyale, 448 pages, $35 That Hitler and…
