Arts & Letters
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Monument to Failure
The General Services Administration, together with the D.C. State Historic Preservation Office, has determined that one of…
Briefly Noted
Saint Aldhelm’s Riddlestranslated by a. m. justertoronto, 173 pages, $29.95 The riddle of Samson’s strength, the riddle…
The Loving Intellect
What does it mean to be an intellectual? The word comes from the Latin word for understanding,…
Books of 2015
We suffer nowadays from a surfeit of literary anniversaries. One blurs into the next until we begin…
Declaiming Homer
The Iliad translated by peter green university of california, 608 pages, $29.95 A translator of Homer is…
Mosebach’s Art
What Was Before by martin mosebach translated by kári driscoll seagull, 248 pages, $27.50 A woman asks…
Nikabrik’s Candidate
If you ever doubt that C. S. Lewis was gifted with a prophetic voice, you need look…
Falstaff the Prophet
His face boasts a geological set of wrinkles, which fold seismically with each witticism or bold-faced lie…
In Honor of David Steinmetz
David Curtis Steinmetz, one of the leading church historians of our time, died this past November at…
The Christian Vision of “The War Room”
Released last summer in theaters, and now available on DVD, The War Room was the most surprising…
Leaving Riga
Romanticism: A German Affair by rüdiger safranski northwestern, 376 pages, $35 During the early Romantic era, subjective…
Francis After Collestrada
Our army met Perugia’s on the plainbeside the hospital. All day we foughtwith crossbow, sword, and lancet…
The War According to Isaac Babel
Red Cavalry by Boris Dralyukpushkin press, 224 pages, $18.00 Isaac Babel’s Red Cavalry, now granted an afterlife…
The Half-Empty Auditorium
The following essay is adapted from Chapter 3 of “The Fortunes of Poetry in an Age of…
The Establishment “Radicals” of the Modern University
Next autumn will mark forty years since I arrived on a college campus as a freshman. I’ve…
