Arts & Letters
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Melville in Manhattan
It should have been easy for Herman Melville to hate Manhattan—the “Babylonish brick-kilns of New York,” as…
Derrida, Death, and Forgiveness
Barth, Derrida, and the Language of Theologyby graham ward cambridge university press, 258 pages, $54.95 The Gift…
Abortion, Set to Music
Sacred Music of the 20th Century LAL-2001, Life Art, Ltd. 129 Frandview Terrace, Box 300, Lakeside, MT…
Are the Gospels Mythical?
From the earliest days of Christianity, the Gospels’ resemblance to certain myths has been used as an…
A Dutch Master and the Good Life
What follows is prompted not by a cigar, but rather a painting by the Dutch (strictly speaking,…
Christianity and the West
The importance of Christianity in the formation of Western civilization can hardly be denied. That importance is…
Poisoned Eros
Love and Friendship by allan bloom simon & schuster, 590 pages, $25 “Christianity gave Eros poison to…
Life’s Value
The Children of Men by p. d. james knopf, 241 pages, $22 For some years now the…
Coming Out Ahead: The Homosexual Moment in the Academy
The journal Victorian Studies recently invited submissions for a special issue, entitled “Victorian Sexualities.” “Topics,” stated the…
Athens and Jerusalem, Again
President Clinton’s push to lift the ban on homosexuals in the military has been called many things:…
To Read and to Live
In 1956, W.H. Auden returned to an Oxford University from which he had graduated almost thirty years…
The Skimpole Syndrome: Childhood Unlimited
Let me re-introduce you to Mr. Harold Skimpole. Skimpole lives in the pages of Charles Dickens’ Bleak…
The Other Okies
Rising in the West by dan morgan knopf, 532 pages, $25 Just when you thought it was…
Fighting on Three Fronts
Jewish Polemics by arthur hertzberg columbia university press, 259 pages, $27.95 Jewish Polemics is a collection of…
The Haunted Mr. Hawthorne
Salem Is My Dwelling Place: A Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne by edward haviland miller university of iowa…
