October 2023

Andrei rublev, the masterpiece of the great Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, opens with a failed attempt to…

For Americans, the 1990s are both the most sharply defined and the most fuzzily understood of modern…

When Cormac McCarthy died in June at age eighty-nine, the news touched off grief and adulation such…

There’s a very short and very brutal poem by the Scottish poet Hollie McNish, written in 2019…

In his masterwork, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche’s mythic hero carries a message—“God is dead!”—throughout the earth,…

The best movie you’ll see this year—or, if I’m being honest, this decade—is about two men having…

Court Religion It was good to see Mark Movsesian (“Defining Religion in the Court,” June/July 2023) tackle…

Sinéad O’Connor, the troubled Irish singer-songwriter, died in July at age fifty-six. No cause of death has…

We all seem to be desperately searching for roots. From the fussy private pastime of Ancestry.com, to…

Pursuits of Happiness: On Being Interestedby eva brannpaul dry, 612 pages, $29.95 At ninety-four years old, Eva Brann…

Why Boredom Matters: Education, Leisure, and the Quest for a Meaningful Life by kevin hood gary cambridge,…

Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty—and What to Do About It by sohrab ahmari penguin…

Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis by john t. mcgreevy w. w.…

The World: A Family History of Humanity by simon sebag montefiore knopf, 1,344 pages, $45 Simon Sebag…

Avik Roy and John Hood recently launched what they hope will be a movement, Freedom Conservatism. In…