Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Letters
Pio’s No-No? My Jewish children are proud Americans born and raised in New York. When they were…
Snowdrops
I planted snowdrops forty years agoWhen I was fourteen; early March they driftAcross the garden, poking through…
Life of the Artist
It’s said that Caravaggio was a creep,A pedophile to be precise, the kindWho lurked near schoolyards, and…
We Renounce the Old World
What They Saw in Americajames l. nolan, jr.cambridge university press, 2016, 299 pages I was twenty and…
Ecumenical Incorrectness
Roman but Not Catholic: What Remains at Stake 500 Years after the Reformation by kenneth j. collins…
Bros Against Humanity
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valleyby emily changportfolio, 320 pages, $28 Near the end…
Death and Dappled Hope
Promise Me, Dad:A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purposeby joe bidenflatiron books, 272 pages, $27 Many politicians’…
James and Melville, Two American Minds
In this series, the First Things junior fellows share mini-essays on their current reading endeavors. Connor GrubaughAssistant Editor Sociologists…
Extracurricular
“I only desire to find out knowledge . . . which may instruct me how to die…
Chatterley on Trial
Lady Chatterley’s Loverby d. h. lawrencemacmillan, 432 pages, $12.99 Six weeks after a London criminal court permitted…
A Moderate Proposal
Faces of Moderation: The Art of Balance in an Age of Extremesby aurelian craiutupenn, 304 pages, $59.95…
Pagan Horror
Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reichby eric kurlanderyale, 448 pages, $35 That Hitler and…
Non Possumus
Kidnapped by the Vatican? The Unpublished Memoirs of Edgardo Mortaraby vittorio messoriignatius, 190 pages, $17.95 At nightfall on…
Saint and Scribe
Lessons in Hope: My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul IIby george weigelbasic, 368 pages, $32 Czesław…
Mary McCarthy’s Clarity
Catholic readers know the story cold. As a young writer, Flannery O’Connor accompanied Robert Lowell and Elizabeth…
