Arts & Letters
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Life Without Law
Montaigne: La Vie Sans Loi ?by pierre manent? flammarion, 366 pages, 22 € Michel de Montaigne’s autobiographical…
What Critical Vision?
Rocket and Lightship: Essays on Literature and Ideas by adam kirsch norton, 320 pages, $26.95 If T.…
Religiously Texan
Rough Country: How Texas Became America’s Most Powerful Bible-Belt State? by robert wuthnow? princeton, 664 pages, $39.50…
Stewardship of the Reader’s Eyes
The central paradox of censorship, according to the historian Paul S. Boyer, is that however sane and…
Dead Souls
The dead lie in their linen, white as chalk, Their noses, lips and eyes are sewn tight…
Blue, Red, Blue
After two clashing days—ultramarine overlaid with vermilion— it came to me late the third afternoon that…
The Five Stages of Grieving the Art of Jeff Koons
It is Sunday night, and the Whitney Museum of American Art has been open for thirty-some hours…
Protestantism in the Desert
I admit to having experienced perverse enjoyment when first hearing the story Episcopal Bishop James Pike. The…
Feeling Fancy
The Wes Anderson Collectionby matt zoller seitzabrams, 336 pages, $50 Wes Anderson is one of the most…
A Theory for Tattoos
The motives for tattoos are many, but they all have a common subtext. A tattoo can mark…
The Enemies, and Friends, of the Humanities
A funny thing happened when Michael Novak brought Herbert Marcuse to lecture to his students. It was…
In the Wake of Heroic Theology
In 2004 Avery Dulles was asked by Commonweal magazine to respond to a disputed question: “How Catholic is…
Politics and the Arts
Jed Perl warns in the August 25 issue of the New Republic of a new threat to…
Greeks Bearing Debts
Classics is no longer seen as a cutting-edge discipline, but two centuries ago German scholars devoted to…
Rebuild Penn Station!
Yes, it sounds like a pipe dream. Rebuild Penn Station? Why imagine that’s possible when New York…
