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,…
Prayer for a Meeting
Come, Holy Spirit, fill me with affection / for sycophantic colleagues who pretend a / boss’s remark…
Divided We Stand
The Undivided Past: Humanity Beyond Our Differences? by david cannadine ?knopf, 352 pages, $26.95 n The history…
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…
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—June/July 2013
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,…
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...
Islam’s Origins
In the Shadow of the Sword The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab…
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.…
