Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Burial of the Faithful
You want a day as boring as a shrub, a high, departing plane the only sound...
Letters—February 2026
As a forty-eight-year-old who graduated from high school in 1995, Trevin Wax’s “We Were Jesus Freaks”...
The Wallet
Oxblood, bifold, kept In a back bedroom Closet all these years, It dates to my time Of…
Another Madonna
Many may not notice the young rabbit, caughtin the thicket of brush near the bottom left-hand corner,…
Birdwatching
The people I want most to like all do it. I listen to their talk of swifts and…
Snowdrops
A gray ordeal, these winters wrapped in scarves…
Another Year, Another Book Stack
Lists, lists, lists—how they proliferate. But it just so happens that I love lists, and have done…
Shakespeare and the City
Recently I checked into a pleasant, fairly sterile Marriott in Shoreditch ahead of my London debut as…
Semiquincentennial Prep with HBO
Having recently lamented in this space that book reading is on life support in these United States,…
Why Creators Convert
Conversion is a gift of grace, yet human hands participate in God’s providence. In her new book,…
Wake Up Dead Man Captures the Beauty of Priestly Ministry
The famous detective Benoit Blanc is known for solving impossible mysteries. When he is called to upstate…
Diagnosing a Disordered Age: New and Notable Books
"Technology's power to shape thinking should matter to every sensible person, but it should especially matter for…
The Genius of Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus
Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus, which aired its finale on Christmas Eve, has all the characteristically ironic notes you…
Caravaggio and Us
Nicolas Poussin, the greatest French artist of the seventeenth century, once said that Caravaggio had come into…
John Wilson’s Year of Reading
This list would have been different a couple of months ago, or yesterday—maybe even in the wee…
