Arts & Letters

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The Good of Politics

Matthew D. Wright

In Search of the Common Good: Christian Fidelity in a Fractured World by jake meadorivp books, 208 pages, $22.53…

Why We Read Memoirs

John Wilson

In June, the New York Times published a list of “The Best 50 Memoirs of the Last…

Hating Netanyahu

Peter Hitchens

Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahuby anshel pfefferbasic, 432 pages, $32 After Israeli Premier…

A Possible Argument for Mercy

Michael R. Burch

Did heaven ever seem so far?Remember—we are as You were,but all our lives, from birth to death—Gethsemane…

The Story of St. Mark’s Gospel

Michael Pakaluk

An interview with Michael Pakaluk, author of The Memoirs of St. Peter, a new translation and commentary…

What She Asks, She Obtains

Stephen Schmalhofer

When historian Henry Adams and his fellow Americans—including Augustus St. Gaudens, Margaret Terry Chanler, Willa Cather, and…

A Not-So-Shaggy Dog Story

John Wilson

Heart of Barknessby spencer quinnforge, 299 pages, $25.99 Our story begins with a recent piece by novelist…

What Should I Read?

John Wilson

Friend: I have a little time for reading this summer—what should I read? [Waves hand at the…

Trump Among Evangelicals

Peter J. Leithart

It’s a widely cited statistic: 81 percent of evangelicals voted for Donald Trump. The thrice-married, trash-talking, wheeling-dealing…

Summer Reading

John Presnall

Me: A couple of weeks ago, when the Summer Reading extravaganza of the New York Times Book…

Post-Apocalyptic

John Wilson

Children, children, don’t get old. You’ll find yourself waking up in the middle of the night and…

Love in the Academic Ruins

Dwight A. Lindley III

The English Department is sick unto death. The signs are all there: an aging tenured professoriate; a…

A Christian Gentleman in the Nation’s Capital

George Weigel

On May 8, the Library of Congress and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars co-hosted a…

Chimpanzee Disaster

Hannah Niemeier

Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dreamby carson vaughanlittle a, 266 pages, $24.95 For two decades,…

Epithalamium

James Matthew Wilson

October 20, 2007 Dear Lynn, I haven’t met you yet, and yet,  Because of your groom’s frank…