Arts & Letters

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1945

Brian Doyle

Here is my dad in Manila. He is twenty-three years old. He is a master sergeant. His…

Apres moi, le Deluge

Amit Majmudar

You needn’t be born a Bourbon To dream your funereal deluge, Some climactic climatic disturbance To rain…

On Taddeo di Bartolo’s “Triptych of the Madonna and Child”

Helen Pinkerton

“Triptych of the Madonna and Child with Angel Musicians, St. John the Baptist, and St. Jerome”(1400, in…

Democracy’s Revenge

Daniel Johnson

A Short History of the Twentieth Century by john lucacs harvard, 240 pages, $24.95 n In the…

Forced Exit

Wesley J. Smith

Assisted Suicide: The Liberal, Humanist Case Against Legalization? by kevin yuill ?palgrave macmillan, 208 pages, $85 n…

Letters

Various

Catholic Marriage The good points about marital preparation that Robert Spaemann makes in “Divorce and Remarriage” (August/September)…

The Wood Duck

Brian Doyle

One time I was driving very slowly with my oldest living brother Through an arboretum he loves,…

On Libertines

Amy L. Wax

How Sex Became a Civil Liberty? by leigh ann wheeler? oxford, 352 pages, $34.95 n The 2013…

Called by Him

John F. Crosby

In the Self’s Place: The Approach of Saint Augustine? by jean-luc marion? translated by jeffrey l. kosky…

Oh, Henry!

Bruce Riley Ashford

Recovering Classic Evangelicalism: Applying the Wisdom and Vision of Carl F. H. Henry? by gregory alan thornbury…

Prayer for a Meeting

Stephen Scaer

Come, Holy Spirit, fill me with affection for sycophantic colleagues who pretend a boss’s remark is witty;…

Global Canon

Robert N. Bellah

The Great Civilized Conversation: Education for a World Community? by wm. theodore de bary ?columbia, 432 pages,…

Divided We Stand

Samuel Goldman

The Undivided Past: Humanity Beyond Our Differences? by david cannadine ?knopf, 352 pages, $26.95 n The history…

A Rooted Man

Ted V. McAllister

Coolidge  by amity shlaes harpercollins, 576 pages, $35 Walter Lippmann might have captured the conservative greatness of…

Saint Teresa’s Fairy Tale

Gail White

A castle made of a single diamond Stands in a courtyard choked with thorns. In the house…