Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
C. S. Lewis’s Love Story
In an era when romance is dead and divorce is considered a natural part of life, Shadowlands,…
Cult of the Cutting-Edge
Should art aspire to be “absolutely cutting-edge”? What exactly does that phrase mean? In The Square, a…
Can Moral Monsters Make Good Movies?
On March 10, 1977, Roman Polanski, director of Chinatown and Rosemary’s Baby, drove 13-year-old Samantha Jane Gailey…
Politics After Liberalism
The Politics of Virtue: Post-Liberalism and the Human Futureby john milbank and adrian pabstrowman and littlefield, 418 pages,…
Big Mullah
2084: The End of the Worldby boualem sansaltranslated by alison andersoneuropa editions, 240 pages, $17 Sleep soundly,…
“You Have to Decide.”
In writing Lessons in Hope: My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II, one of my secondary…
Rambling Shambling Brian Doyle
Eight Whopping Liesby brian doylefranciscan media, 192 pages, $18.99 The biographical note at the back of Eight…
Exit Neoliberalism
Exit Westby mohsin hamidriverhead books, 240 pages, $26 In an odd way, Mohsin Hamid’s fourth novel, Exit…
Ember Days
September 1: Though acorns start to fall,And equinox is still three weeks away,We lose the evanescent light…
Shock of the Real
Journey to the Land of the Real: A Translation of Equipéeby victor segalentranslated by natasha lehreratlas, 136 pages,…
Salome
I wonder who taught Salome to dance,To wave her arms, to drop her final veil.For all her…
Anselm Kiefer’s Beautiful Apocalypticism
Anselm Kiefer: A Monograph by dominique baqué thames & hudson, 300 pages, $70 In 2009 I visited…
The Persistence of Print
Just a few years ago, if you asked an editor at a large publishing house about the…
Disciples Are Made in the Home
Demography, Culture, and the Decline of America’s Christian Denominations by george hawleylexington books, 238 pages, $95.00 It’s no…
Evaluating the World’s Religions
The founders of the great, durable religions of the world were not philosophers. The intuitions that our…
