Arts & Letters
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Hans Friedrich Grohs: From Bereavement to Benediction
Hans Friedrich Grohs (1892-1981) was an accomplished artist who belonged to the second generation of German Expressionist…
Speaking from the Peripheries
The September issue of Harper’s features a thoughtful essay by Alan Jacobs, “The Watchmen: What Became of…
Love Is Barefoot Philosophy
Plato’s Bedroom: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Loveby david k. o’connorst. augustine’s press, 301 pages, $28.00 In December…
Where Her Whimsy Took Me
I left college with a bachelors and a long and growing reading list, with works by authors…
Cryogenic Monks
Christianity’s waning influence in the West has not reduced our desire for apocalypse. We still look to…
Into the Fire
Every love counts, the puppy you were givenAt six, the tadpoles that you tried to raise;Even your…
Street Piano
The movers get it out—a Steinway grand,half-rolled, half-carried to the street. A crowd,molecular, implicit, is at handalready.…
A (Scholastic) Sonnet from the Portuguese
Now largely forgotten outside the Portuguese-speaking world, Luis Vaz de Camoens (1524-1580) was revered by many luminaries…
Final Advice for the Untenured Conservative Humanist
This is the third and final installment of an advice column for religious and social conservatives preparing…
More Advice For the Untenured Conservative Humanist
This is the second installment of an advice column for religious and social conservatives preparing for the…
The Other Assisi
We pilgrims pile into the Basilica of Saint Clare to see the San Damiano cross that spoke…
Some AdviceFor the Untenured Conservative Humanist
On paper, tenure recommendations for humanities professors have three parts: research, teaching, service. That’s what the faculty…
James Stoddard’s Interior Castle
James Stoddard ought to be famous for his Evenmere trilogy—The High House (1998), The False House (2000,…
Christian Freedom Amidst Persecution
Christianity and Freedom, Vol. II, Contemporary Perspectives edited by allen d. hertzke & timothy samuel shah cambridge,…
Beyoncé and the Fertility of Forgiveness
The most screenshotted sequence in Beyoncé’s visual album Lemonade is “Hold Up.” After discovering her husband’s infidelity, she walks…
