Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
In Praise of Good Bad Books
I had a fairly bookish childhood. I don’t mean that I was a sedentary youth; I spent…
Dogma’s Defender
Theological Tractates by erik peterson, edited and translated by michael j. hollerich stanford, 296 pages, $24.95 Germany’s…
After the Mighty Gods Depart
They do not always hear our special plea, the lame gods”Deaf-In-One-Ear, Old Hobbled-Knee, that sooty lug the…
Accidents
On the verge of the unthinkable, the iceberg turns unsinkable to the hull. The buoying force of…
A Woman in Full
The Tigress of Forli: Renaissance Italy’s Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de’ Mediciby elizabeth levhoughton…
The Day the Rain Began
Genesis 7:12 Today seemed just an ordinary day. The sun rose like an irritated eye; wives cooked…
Learning to Love
One hardly expects a Pulitzer Prize“winning novelist to treat religious faith in a sympathetic and sophisticated way,…
Diversity
The opportunity for us To kick up dust and start a fuss Has so decreased in recent…
Nothing Lies
An atom’s 99.9% nothing at all. The world’s an empty place. Its solid shapes are objects we…
They Shall Beat Their Swords…
With my father’s Army ballpeen hammer I’d found down in the cellar, I kept banging on the…
A Gift
The boy comes to the back door of the parish, bearing he says, “A gift.” A crib,…
A Philosophy for the Powerful
Once animated by revolutionary ardor, our secular intellectuals have reached a dead end. Today they pen books…
Luminous Wisdom
Treasury of the True Dharma Eye:Zen Master Dogen’s Shobo Genzo by Dogen, edited by Kazuaki Tanahashi (multiple…
Books for Christmas
If memory serves, this past year saw electronic books top printed books in the sales figures at…
Letters—November 2011
developing status Christopher Kaczor (“Equal Rights, Unequal Wrongs,” August/September) echoes a fallacious argument now popular among pro-life…
