Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Screen-Obsessed and Isolated: New and Notable Books
As readers of First Things well know, more and more examinations of the threat of technology to…
As Long as You’re Living
I first heard Robert Munsch in second grade. Our teacher read his 1986 classic Love You Forever…
Voyages to the End of the World
Francis Bacon dreamed of abolishing disease, natural disasters, and chance itself. He also dreamed of abolishing God.
The Cambrian Implosion
A historical moment ago, it was too obvious for words, but: Life is a blessing. So to…
Where Is God in The Lord of the Rings? (ft. Douglas Estes)
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Douglas Estes joins…
Contained Controversy
To describe the shifting relationship between religion and art, we must use the broad brush. Judaism and…
Finding Private Roy
By the late 1970s, when I attended public high school in rural, blue-collar Central New York, more…
B. F. Skinner Is Back
In the summer of 1942, Arthur D. Hyde, vice president in charge of research at General Mills,…
In the Stacks
The stacks referred to in the title of this column, as you may have guessed, are made…
Letters
I am writing not to address any particular article, but rather to register my concern about the…
Madonna and Child
First Place — 2025 First Things Poetry Prize
Not Versed in Country Things
Second Place — 2025 First Things Poetry Prize
For the Finders of Bodies in Murder Mysteries
Pray for her now, the cleaner arriving at dawn, unlocking, humming idly as she dusts till a…
Staying Put
Late autumn dusk, the hock-cart drawing near, The time of year and day becoming one As all…
Weightlifting in the Underground
Harold, the protagonist of Jordan Castro's new novel Muscle Man, is a Gulliver who doesn't travel. Or…
