Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
A Misty Reel
Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition? by David Nirenberg Norton, 624 pages, $35 n World history is the history…
Life’s Detail
Paper Memory: A Sixteenth-Century Townsman Writes His World by Matthew Lundin Harvard, 352 pages, $49.95 Hermann Weinsberg…
Sacred Wood
The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays by James Wood Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 339 pages, $27 In…
Letters
Divine Action Ross McCullough dissects the God-of-the-gaps objection (“God and the Gaps,” April), which for too long…
By Their Fruits You Shall Know Them
Hard words, Lord Christ! For what good fruits bear I? For all your care and tending, what…
Henry Hope Reed, Defender of Decoration
The distinguished architectural historian Henry Hope Reed died May 1 at age ninety-seven. More than any cultural…
Good Council
Trent: What Happened at the Council by John W. O’Malley Harvard, 352 pages, $27.95 Professor John O’Malley…
Feeding
Here she is again, old Worm-beak, Breast the color of a mud lake, Perched on a post…
The Red Beads: At the Maldonado Flea Market, Uruguay
Among the pipes and pulleys, sacks and seeds, there is a necklace made of crimson beads. Great…
Islam’s Origins
In the Shadow of the Sword The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab…
A Nation of Valjeans
Jean Valjean was found guilty: The terms of the penal code were explicit. In our civilization there…
At the Church of the Nativity
Upstanding persons surely find it odd, The way these pilgrims crawl to Bethlehem. How baffling is the…
Japanese Maple in January
All spring she brushed aside my arguments that it was cheaper and would make more sense to…
The Future of Marriage
Last summer, billionaire hedge fund manager and major Republican donor Paul Singer put up $1 million to…
The New Secular Moral Majority
A recent report from the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life tells us that…
