Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Whatever Happened to Susan Pevensie?
It’s one of childhood’s great narrative shocks. Susan Pevensie is no longer a friend of Narnia. The…
Visiting Geneva
I came to Geneva / by the bullet train / up from church kero lamps / it…
Examination of Conscience
The Problem of Natural Law by Douglas?Kries Lexington, 214 pages, $25.95 The decade after the Second World…
Body Shadows
Once upon a time the Chairman / ordered the complete destruction / of the “Four Pests” plaguing…
The Population Bomb
Fatal Misconception by Matthew Connelly Belknap Press, 544 pages, $35 Unlike most young academics, who imagine that…
Revisionism
If you believe our liturgies, / no marriage may be sundered...
Background Radiation
Grace bathes us / Inside and out, most of it passing right through, / Our neuron mesh…
Bayside Immortals
Please come to Mount Parnassus for the view: / The winding streets, the flowered hills, the dock...
Wrestling With an Angel
Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life: Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, Wittgenstein by Hilary Putnam Indiana University Press,…
Air on the Side of Prudence
I think that I am suffering / From post-neurotic stress disorder / A random thought? an ordered…
And His Name Shall Be Called Emmanuel
The One Who Is to Come by Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S.J. Eerdmans, 224 pages, $18 Joseph Fitzmyer…
The Death of Protestant America
In 1994, after intense study, discussion, and prayer, we issued a statement titled “Evangelicals and Catholics Together:…
Letters—Aug/Sept 2008
The ABCs of AIDS The First Things article “AIDS and the Churches” underscores a sad reality in…
Saint-Séverin, II
With Notre-Dame, the Sacré-Coeur, and all / the rest, obscure or famous Trinity, / Saint-Julian-the-Poor, Saint-Roch, Saint-Paul...
Ad Orientem
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by judith herrin princeton university press, 440 pages, $29.95…
