Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Ruins
Pill bottles in assorted sizes lie / scattered across the smooth Formica plain / of the bathroom…
Taking Art Off the Street
Street art—you mean vandalism? No, thank you.” That was the response of a friend when I invited…
Saving Rock and Roll
Rock and roll has a rebellious sound. I write that hesitantly, because there is really no such…
Progressive Rock Redeemed
On February 9, I had the pleasure of finally seeing one of my favorite bands for the…
The Joyless House of Cards
The second season of Netflix’s House of Cards introduces a new aide for Vice President Frank Underwood, who seems…
1945
Here is my dad in Manila. He is twenty-three years old. / He is a master sergeant.…
Apres moi, le Deluge
You needn’t be born a Bourbon / To dream your funereal deluge, / Some climactic climatic disturbance...
On Taddeo di Bartolo’s “Triptych of the Madonna and Child”
Her face is singularly simple, and His / Seems unaware of the inscription written / Across the…
Democracy’s Revenge
A Short History of the Twentieth Century by john lucacs harvard, 240 pages, $24.95 n In the…
Forced Exit
Assisted Suicide: The Liberal, Humanist Case Against Legalization? by kevin yuill ?palgrave macmillan, 208 pages, $85 n…
Letters—November 2013
Catholic Marriage The good points about marital preparation that Robert Spaemann makes in “Divorce and Remarriage” (August/September)…
The Wood Duck
One time I was driving very slowly with my oldest living brother / Through an arboretum he…
On Libertines
How Sex Became a Civil Liberty? by leigh ann wheeler? oxford, 352 pages, $34.95 n The 2013…
Called by Him
In the Self’s Place: The Approach of Saint Augustine? by jean-luc marion? translated by jeffrey l. kosky…
Oh, Henry!
Recovering Classic Evangelicalism: Applying the Wisdom and Vision of Carl F. H. Henry? by gregory alan thornbury…
