Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
“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…
Home, Not Freedom
I’m a proponent of academic freedom. But what we need today is a home and an inheritance,…
An Empty Parliament
My nastier, more vindictive side rather hopes that it will take so long to renovate the British…
Prepping for an Amish Apocalypse
A fairly popular contemporary view of the apocalypse envisions it as a sudden and complete shutdown of…
A Memoir I Never Expected to Write
When the second volume of my John Paul II biography, The End and the Beginning, was published…
Such a Wreckage
John BradburneThe Vagabond of GodBy Didier RanceDarton, Longman & Todd, 504 pages, $20.77 John Bradburne’s fan club—an…
