Arts & Letters
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Leaving Riga
Romanticism: A German Affair by rüdiger safranski northwestern, 376 pages, $35 During the early Romantic era, subjective…
Francis After Collestrada
Our army met Perugia’s on the plainbeside the hospital. All day we foughtwith crossbow, sword, and lancet…
The War According to Isaac Babel
Red Cavalry by Boris Dralyukpushkin press, 224 pages, $18.00 Isaac Babel’s Red Cavalry, now granted an afterlife…
The Half-Empty Auditorium
The following essay is adapted from Chapter 3 of “The Fortunes of Poetry in an Age of…
The Establishment “Radicals” of the Modern University
Next autumn will mark forty years since I arrived on a college campus as a freshman. I’ve…
Rise of the “Unholy Left”
The Devil’s Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West by michael…
2015: Our Year in Books
We asked some of our writers to contribute a paragraph about the most memorable books they read…
Letters
Africa John Azumah, author of “Through African Eyes” (October), has been my colleague and friend at Columbia…
Sabbath
Sabbath: You make demandsupon my heart, upon my hands,and, certainly, upon my mind:a quietness, profound, benignwhere receptivity…
Overlooked Philosophy
Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Vol. II by…
Baylor at the Crossroads
I joined Baylor University’s faculty in July 2003 after a brief stint as a Visiting Fellow in…
A Woman in the Seminary
I recently went to a vespers service at the institute of Catholic higher learning that I attend,…
Frames of Mind
My attention span is waning. I’ve noted it for the past couple of years: No longer can…
Close Reading in the Classroom
Teaching Particulars, Literary Conversations in Grades 6-12 by Helaine L. Smith paul dry, 248 pages, $18.95 Too…
A Guide Through the Thicket
Renewing Moral Theology: Christian Ethics as Action, Character, and Grace by daniel a. westberg ivp academic, 281…
