Events Roundup—10.27.23
by EditorsEvents happening over the coming days that may interest our readers. Continue Reading »
Melancholic Verses
by Randy BoyagodaTwenty years after publishing his first novel—years he spent establishing himself, in incisive, often fearsome essays and reviews and nonfiction books, as a leading literary–cultural critic—Pankaj Mishra had a Damascene moment of sorts. He describes it in a recent essay for . . . . Continue Reading »
A “Somewhere” Composer
by Richard BratbyIt’s about a quarter to ten at night on August 17, 2019, and I’m standing outside the Usher Hall in Edinburgh, smiling. It’s one of those Edinburgh Festival nights when the streets are still crowded but there’s already a foretaste of autumn in the air, a warning chill in the sea breezes that . . . . Continue Reading »
The Lost World of Jazz
by Peter TonguetteSeen today, Jazz on a Summer’s Day shimmers with its glimpses of a world in which people, for all their differences, shared so much. When was the last time so many people got together with such geniality and grace? Continue Reading »
The Art of Grief
by Veronica ClarkeArt gives us structure and clarity; it helps us make sense of the disorder of life. Will Arbery’s Corsicana is a weird play, but you will feel warmer for having seen it—and maybe a little wiser, too. Continue Reading »
The Art of St. Joseph
by Mark BauerleinElizabeth Lev joins the podcast to discuss her recent book, The Silent Knight: A History of St. Joseph as Depicted in Art. Continue Reading »
The Riches of Rock Art
by John WilsonA recent book on the history of Native American rock art invites readers to experience both a profound sense of otherness and a fundamental human bond, neither one cancelling out the other. Continue Reading »
Artists and Abortion
by Jonathon Van MarenWe desperately need more artists like William Kurelek to expose the carnage beneath the surface of our society, and to begin a conversation on why it must end. Continue Reading »
Praying with Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis
by Robert P. ImbelliIn the Missa Solemnis, Beethoven’s titanic subjectivity seems chastened by suffering and transformed by his engagement with the graced objectivity of liturgical text and tradition. Continue Reading »
Lent, Gianlorenzo Bernini, and the Liberating Lightness of Truth
by George WeigelAs the Church enters Lent 2022, it is well to reflect on and pray over the Catholic understanding that doctrine is light, powerful, and liberating, which some parts of the world Church seem to have forgotten. Continue Reading »
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