Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
How Disney Killed Snow White
Disney’s live action version of Snow White, a spectacular flop at the box office, continues to get…
Snow What?
The editors discuss the live-action Snow White, Disney’s biggest flop in recent memory. Did the star hijack…
Faith in the Modern Age: New and Notable Books
Lots of new books are documenting the difficulties of faith at the present time, as well as…
Omnis in Scripturas
Out in some wild place, there stands a prophet. He is alone with the elements and his…
Andy Warhol’s Sacraments
Andy Warhol’s reproductions of popular brand logos have sparked debate as to whether he is playfully critiquing…
In Search of Turkish Delight
In a final scene of Dorothy Sayers’s 1930 novel Strong Poison, a murderer devours a large quantity…
My Family and Other Gnostics
A funny story is almost never improved by an assiduous concern for facts. Case in point: Gerald…
What We’ve Been Reading—February
R. R. Reno As a teenager, I was an aspiring rock climber. At eighteen, I found myself…
The Catholics Reviving Renaissance-Style Arts Patronage
A cohort of American Catholic patrons of the arts sense the time is ripe for another Renaissance.…
Navigating the Battlefield of Modern Romance
Tony Tulathimutte’s breakthrough short story “The Feminist,” published in the literary magazine n+1, generated significant online controversy…
Books On My Mind
Do you remember those illustrations (which used to be very common) that showed, say, a deliberately jokey…
Honeymoon Road Signs on I-10 East in Arizona
Zero visibility possible,you read aloud. The logic’s water-tight:there’s always a good chance for lack of sight. We…
The End of Politics
The living soul will demand life, the living soul won’t listen to mechanics, the living soul is…
Woke vs. The Left
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. David Rieff joins in…
The Lenten Politics of Measure for Measure
At the beginning of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, Vincentio, the Duke of Vienna, withdraws from the city…
