What Was Humanism?
by Mark BauerleinEric Adler joins in to discuss his new book, Humanistic Letters: The Irving Babbitt-Paul Elmer More Correspondence. Continue Reading »
The Dark Side of Jane Austen
by Mark Bauerleinfirst things senior editor Julia Yost joins in to discuss her new book, Jane Austen's Darkness. Continue Reading »
Women and the Catholic Novel
by Mark BauerleinHaley Stewart joins in to discuss her new book, Women of the Catholic Imagination: Twelve Inspired Novelists You Should Know. Continue Reading »
Briefly Noted
by VariousIf Famous Jewish Sports Legends is the leaflet in the punchline of a joke about “light reading” in the movie Airplane!, and Jewish Nobel Prize Winners would be a tome, Rabbi Meir Y. Soloveichik’s Providence and Power: Ten Portraits in Jewish Statesmanship is . . . . Continue Reading »
The Fanfic Temptation
by Veronica ClarkeA few months ago, an old school friend confessed that she’d been reading a lot of “AO3”—Archive of Our Own, the world’s most popular fan fiction website. I assured her that she wasn’t alone. Fan fiction—stories about fictional characters or real-life celebrities, written by the . . . . Continue Reading »
Stay in My Heart
by Valerie StiversOn a spring day seven years ago I was driving across Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn feeling unusually right with the world. I felt peaceful and uplifted because I had, a few days before, settled in my mind a difficult, painful question: I would eventually leave my husband. We had children . . . . Continue Reading »
Playing the Venereal Game
by George WeigelPlaying the game of the delightful celebration of imaginative collective nouns can soothe the spirit in the face of life’s seemingly endless frustrations, vicissitudes, or annoyances. Continue Reading »
Old Men Shall Dream Dreams
by John WilsonThe Christian intellectual world should invest in starting a new review of books. Continue Reading »
Phono Sapiens
by Matthew GasdaMy friend J, a computer programmer, once convinced his former roommate—also a programmer—to watch the Japanese art film Asako I & II, about a woman who falls in love with two identical-looking but different men. J’s roommate sat patiently through this intricate, two-hour . . . . Continue Reading »
Faith and Russian Literature
by Gary Saul MorsonRussians take positions to the extreme. As a result, Russian intellectual history shows us where ideas may lead—and in Russia’s case, really did. The English prided themselves on moderation and suspicion of radical abstractions, but Russians regarded anything short of ultimate positions as . . . . Continue Reading »
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