Arts & Letters
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What We’ve Been Reading—June 2020
R. R. Reno Editor Eugene Vodolazkin’s first novel, Solovyov and Larionov, is his most recently translated. It’s a…
Witnessing Martyrdom
To walk south from Rome along the Via Appia is to follow in the footsteps of Saint…
A Call To Conversion
When I first watched the video of the confrontation that ended Ahmaud Arbery’s life, I did not…
The Cat Jeoffry, on Smart
For I will consider my Man Christopher.For he is shut in a box, and betimes scratchesAt the…
Homeschoolers and Ideologues
Harvard professor Elizabeth Bartholet’s attack on homeschooling is the kind of argument that would, if a few…
Common Sense For America
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Philip K.…
All Will Be Well
We watched the Italian tragedy unfold. Medical professionals worked heroically; many became ill and a few died.…
Communion for the Great Dismal Swamp
Is it a violence to take the knife to the loaf? This redemptionhas a split crust and…
The “Historic” Amazonian Synod, Revisited
Given that he was one of the principal planners and prominent leaders of last October’s special Synod…
Apostles Dead and Risen
Christian piety and art have often concentrated on the physical pain of Jesus’s torture, trial, and death.…
The Cross Stands Firm
On March 24, as the coronavirus pandemic ramped up, four Catholic priests in northeast Minneapolis gathered with…
Christ Crowned with Thorns
To really hear what I’m about to sayIs probably impossible apartFrom taking in the painting at its…
Easter Vigil
You’re rising somewhere in the April nightAgain, as ever with returning spring.Your tomb will be found empty…
About a Garden I Once Knew in a Swamp
I could have listened to her read a phone book,numbers and letters formed in her mouthas if…
