Arts & Letters
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The Day the Rain Began
Genesis 7:12 Today seemed just an ordinary day. The sun rose like an irritated eye; wives cooked…
A Woman in Full
The Tigress of Forli: Renaissance Italy’s Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de’ Mediciby elizabeth levhoughton…
Diversity
The opportunity for us To kick up dust and start a fuss Has so decreased in recent…
Nothing Lies
An atom’s 99.9% nothing at all. The world’s an empty place. Its solid shapes are objects we…
They Shall Beat Their Swords…
With my father’s Army ballpeen hammer I’d found down in the cellar, I kept banging on the…
A Gift
The boy comes to the back door of the parish, bearing he says, “A gift.” A crib,…
Luminous Wisdom
Treasury of the True Dharma Eye:Zen Master Dogen’s Shobo Genzo by Dogen, edited by Kazuaki Tanahashi (multiple…
Books for Christmas
If memory serves, this past year saw electronic books top printed books in the sales figures at…
Messianic Restraint
Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience by Richard Landes Oxford, 520 pages, $35 n…
Letters
developing status Christopher Kaczor (“Equal Rights, Unequal Wrongs,” August/September) echoes a fallacious argument now popular among pro-life…
Letters
doubting thomas on lying Janet E. Smith is to be commended for the deference she shows St.…
The Religious Antidote
Imagine that a systematic review of the sociology literature found that, in 247 of 273 relevant studies,…
The Ballroom of Heaven
As a Boy Scout, Dad decoded The dit-dit-dahs of Morse, the swashed flags Of semaphore, bugled “Taps.”…
Tongued Fire
Tender gift of lifting one’s hands, understanding there’s a force enforcing that promise sprung from a distant…
Elective Antipathies
Simone Weil by Palle Yourgrau Reaktion Books, 189 pages, $16.95, paper n Simone Weil continues to fascinate.…
