Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Fallacy
A shadow cast by something invisible falls on the white cover of a book lying on my…
Sleeping Through Life
Two chapters into Matthew Gasda’s The Sleepers, Mariko, a waitress and stage actress, gets into a spat…
Rebel Against the Cult of the Expert
For me, the end of the academic year is always bittersweet. The sweetness comes from seeing students…
Endless Shuffle
”The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and…
Song of Thanksgiving
On the cover of Nicholas Chong’s new book, The Catholic Beethoven, the skies are blue. That in…
Books and Baseball
Several weeks ago, in sync with the start of Major League Baseball’s 2025 season, the University of…
A Classical Insurgency
Why learn Latin? And by what means? Many professional classicists have no convincing answer to either question.…
Lift My Chin, Lord
Lift my chin, Lord,Say to me,“You are not whoYou feared to be,Not Hecate, quite,With howling sound,Torch held…
Briefly Noted
A Grand Slam for God:A Journey from Baseball Star to Catholic Priestby burke masterword on fire, 192…
Letters
Two delightful essays in the March issue, by Nikolas Prassas (“Large Language Poetry,” March 2025) and Gary…
Spring Twilight After Penance
Let’s say you’ve just comeFrom confession. Late sunPours through the budding treesThat mark the brown creek washing Itself…
For an English Teacher
You died, but it was not your words that faltered. You’d husbanded the language all your life, And when…
While We’re At It
H. Richard Niebuhr taught at Yale Divinity School for many decades. In 1953, he made the following…
What We’ve Been Reading—March
Virginia Aabram I’m reading two books this Lent, the first of which is a reminder of what…
The Rise and Fall of Urban Frump
In 2021 a friend sent me a video of a bizarre fashion show. The models paraded through…
