Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Favorite Books of 2018
For many years when I was editing Books & Culture, I posted an annual list of favorites.…
In Midwinter
Long and lean and sharp of tooth comes winter in its chill,Deep and void the nights become,…
The Church’s Book
The Bible in a Disenchanted Age: The Enduring Possibility of Christian Faithby r. w. l. moberlybaker, 240…
Ad-Venting
I need tidings of comfort and of joy;Please play me “Hark, the Herald Angels Sing.”I don’t like…
Dare to Knock
The Kingdom by emmanuel carrère farrar, straus and giroux, 400 pages, $28 The genius and the apostle…
Coming Attractions for 2019
Two weeks from now, I’ll write in this space about some of my favorite books from 2018.…
Superheroes and Saints
Face front, true believers. Last week the world lost one of the few household names among the…
And All Shall Be Well
George MacDonald in the Age of Miracles:Incarnation, Doubt, and Reenchantmentby timothy larsenivp academic, 150 pages, $16 People…
The Bookish Life
The village idiot of the shtetl of Frampol was offered the job of waiting at the village…
The Hawks in the Leaves
The silly chickens huddle in dismay.Each shadow cast by falling leaves they taketo be a hawk descending…
Redeeming Transcendence
We live in a time of disenchantment, or so we’re told. Strange. Our first text is an…
Harry Potter as Sacred Text
Traditional contemplative practices are in right now—and not only with the religious and pan-spiritual types you’d expect.…
Wendell Berry Goes to School
Wendell Berry and Higher Education:Cultivating Virtues of Placeby jack r. baker and jeffrey bilbrouniversity press of kentucky,…
Sentiment Without Sentimentality
A Carnival of Losses:Notes Nearing Ninetyby donald hallhoughton mifflin harcourt, 224 pages, $25 Even in antiquity, some…
Art Rethought
I’m writing next to a stack of books, atop which is one of the most contrarian and…
