Arts & Letters
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The Watch and Ward Society
A book should not be judged by its cover; nor, perhaps, should it be judged by its…
The Decent Drapery of Life
The Moral Imagination: From Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling By Gertrude Himmelfarb Ivan R. Dee, 288 pages,…
Religion and the Legitimate State
The idea of a social contract first makes its appearance in Plato’s Republic . Men are naturally…
RJN 2.8.06 There are many things
There are many things that need to be said about the Muslim reaction to those cartoons in…
Spirit in the Abstract
The last American painters of colossal spiritual ambition were such artists as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett…
East of Eden
Fallen by David Maine St. Martin’s, 256, $23.95 The Perservationist by David Maine St. Martin’s, 240 pages,…
Advent Windows
Holy Holle, Mother Winter, Shakes her eider till it flutters, Till the ticking frees its feathers, Drifting,…
RJN: 11.29.05 In the Washington…
In the Washington Post ( November 18 ), Michael Kinsley returns to the complexity of abortion politics.…
Walking the Sea
Walking the sea, I think of the small diaspora of the hermit crab, and the unshackled shell.…
American Apocalypse
An Angel Directs the Storm: Apocalyptic Religion and American Empire By Michael Northcott I.B. Tauris. 220 pp.…
Ordinary Idols
Death of an Ordinary Man: A Novel by Glen Duncan Grove. 320 pp. $13 paper. “As soon…
Nor Certitude, Nor Peace
Saturday by Ian McEwan Doubleday, 304 pp., $26. Ian McEwan’s Saturday is his eighth novel, and perhaps…
A Durable Consolation
Faithful Reason: Essays Catholic and Philosophical by John Haldane Routledge, 288 pp. $34.95. paper. Contemporary Western philosophy…
Kierkegaard’s Voices
Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography by joakim garff translated by bruce h. kirmmse princeton university press, 867 pages,…
Finished
The Finishing School by Muriel Spark Doubleday. 192 pp. $16.95 Muriel Spark, Dame of the British Empire,…
