Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Global Canon
The Great Civilized Conversation: Education for a World Community? by wm. theodore de bary ?columbia, 432 pages,…
Divided We Stand
The Undivided Past: Humanity Beyond Our Differences? by david cannadine ?knopf, 352 pages, $26.95 n The history…
The Wood Duck
One time I was driving very slowly with my oldest living brother Through an arboretum he loves,…
A Rooted Man
Coolidge by amity shlaes harpercollins, 576 pages, $35 Walter Lippmann might have captured the conservative greatness of…
Saint Teresa’s Fairy Tale
A castle made of a single diamond Stands in a courtyard choked with thorns. In the house…
A Misty Reel
Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition? by David Nirenberg Norton, 624 pages, $35 n World history is the history…
Life’s Detail
Paper Memory: A Sixteenth-Century Townsman Writes His World by Matthew Lundin Harvard, 352 pages, $49.95 Hermann Weinsberg…
Sacred Wood
The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays by James Wood Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 339 pages, $27 In…
Letters
Divine Action Ross McCullough dissects the God-of-the-gaps objection (“God and the Gaps,” April), which for too long…
By Their Fruits You Shall Know Them
Hard words, Lord Christ! For what good fruits bear I? For all your care and tending, what…
Henry Hope Reed, Defender of Decoration
The distinguished architectural historian Henry Hope Reed died May 1 at age ninety-seven. More than any cultural…
Good Council
Trent: What Happened at the Council by John W. O’Malley Harvard, 352 pages, $27.95 Professor John O’Malley…
Feeding
Here she is again, old Worm-beak, Breast the color of a mud lake, Perched on a post…
The Red Beads: At the Maldonado Flea Market, Uruguay
Among the pipes and pulleys, sacks and seeds, there is a necklace made of crimson beads. Great…
Islam’s Origins
In the Shadow of the Sword The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab…
