Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
On Viewing the Paintings of Bruno Liljefors
How good and fine it would have been, to be out upon the wild loon swellsAnd watch…
The One and the Many
The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas by isaiah berlin alfred a. knopf,…
The Personal Niebuhr
Remembering Reinhold Niebuhr: Letters of Reinhold and Ursula Niebuhr edited by ursula m. niebuhr harpercollins, 432 pages,…
Infernal Counsel
Dear Cachexia, Well, isn’t this impressive! You’ve had charge of this patient of yours for just two…
The Neoconservatives
Watch on the Right: Conservative Intellectuals in the Reagan Era by j. david hoeveler, jr. university of…
Immortal Florence
Dante and Michelangelo You were here; Brunelleschi, Donatello, Savonarola, the Medici, Machiavelli, Ghiberti, Leonardo da Vinci—All left their mark; But none is so…
The Advent of Literary Science
It is now more than thirty years since C. P. Snow’s Cambridge Rede Lecture, “The Two Cultures…
At the Concert
There! He’s one of the first onstage! A less disheveled crowd than usual . . . Under…
Art and the Spirit
The expression of art—the exploration of figurative and abstract thought in tangible external forms—is unique to human…
1492 and All That
The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacyby kirkpatrick saleknopf, 453 pages, $24.95 As every…
Alasdair MacIntyre’s University
Three Rival Versions of Moral Inquiry by alasdair macintyre university of notre dame press, 241 pages, $24.95…
Evangelical Growth and Politics in Latin America
Is Latin America Turning Protestant? The Politics of Evangelical Growth by david stoll university of california press,…
Victory Near the Plaza
“Sherman Led by Victory” Is a St. Gaudens statue, A cast-bronze allegory. With Victory as a woman Pulling his horse’s bridle Out…
Mortality: The Measure of Our Days
Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither; Ripeness is all. —King Lear For…
Toward a Christian Critique of the Arts
Sham Pearls for Real Swine by franky schaeffer wolgemuth & hyatt, 290 pages, $14.95 In 1948, a…
