Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
A contrarian in the age of AI
Christopher Mari is cranky about AI (and we’re fine with that)
Friday Links
Austin Allen on Hard Line Politics: On the Myth of Free Verse; A.M. Juster asks: Can Americans Love Poetry Again?; Luella D’Amico on the The Catholic Morning Show; Malcolm Guite: In Defense of Pint and Pipe; Eleanor Parker on Artificial Inspiration
A summer love affair with home
An impassioned defense of those who dislike travel
The soul of a finance bro
Anna Bruno on her realization that even a finance bro has an inner life.
Friday Links
Joshua Hren on Joseph Conrad; Heaven on Earth by Thomas Traherne; The Whole In One: An Interview with James Matthew Wilson; The Nine Best Movies on the Creative Life; The Architecture of Transformative Experience
I am not a paintbrush
Artist Daniel Mitsui reflects on Art and Generative AI
Enthusiasm
Mike Schramm argues that cringe culture is dead.
How one Catholic school created a folk festival
At Canongate, it was the music that came to rest in the hearts of students the most. When alumni were polled two years ago, they were asked to rank aspects of their education that they considered to be most memorable and most worth preserving. The highest-ranking answer universally was making and sharing music together.
Friday Links
Flannery Abroad Conference with Phil Klay; Andrew Callis in Presence Journal ; Steve Knepper is (Somewhat) Against “Selected Poems”; Rod Dreher’s Weird Case for Religion; Down in my heart to stay; George Weigel On Flannery O’Connor’s Centenary; B. H. Fairchild: PoetryLA Series
Education as a mystery of cooperation
Nature, grace, and the incarnational reality of education
Friday Links
On a Gnat’s Horizon by Brian Brodeur; Joshua Hren on James Joyce; Substack Poets of Note from Poetics with Robert Charboneau; “What is Art, and Why Does It Matter?”; Congrats to Chrism Press!; The Catholic Imagination: How Do We Define it? How Do We Use It?; First Things Poetry Prize
Orphans of the storm
Evelyn Waugh’s masterclass in using exterior scenery to dramatize matters of the heart.
Friday Links
B.D. McClay on Northanger Abbey; Dana Gioia on Gerard Manley Hopkins; Wilfred M. McClay reviews Arthur Kirsch’s Auden and Christianity; JMW on “Man Is Born to Behold Beauty“; Collegium’s The Art of Friendship
Is Dappled Things too down on the Catholic writing scene?
A response to a recent book review in our magazine
Friday Links
Great Vespers; Julia Yost on The Scandal of Dogmatism; The God of Wes Anderson; Daniel McInerny asks: What Moves Your Heart?; Pope Leo on the workers in the vineyard; A Ukrainian Crime Caper That Undermines Expectations; MAiD: Are We Sleepwalking Down a Slippery Slope?
We’re Holding the Blossoms Up High
Reflections on safety, boundaries, and wandering in the modern world.
Friday Links
Christopher Honey reviews Fret Not by Michael Shindler; Fr. Herman Majkrzak: Recovering a Full Theological Vision of the Ascension; Catholic Culture Podcast and Fr. John Nepil; Ascending to the Seven Virtues of J.R.R. Tolkien; Margaret Noodin reviews Matthew Brennan’s The Sea-Crossing of Saint Brendan; Cardinal Dolan on NY’s Assisted Suicide Bill
Passacaglia and predestination
Biber’s musical masterpiece reveals the logic of beauty straining for its proper end.
Friday Links
St. Rita of Cascia; A Rose in Winter; Matthew Milliner: The Puffins and Evelyn Underhill; Itxu Díaz: The Enduring Legacy of the Spanish Mystics; Tara Isabella Burton on transgression and art
Announcing the Winners of the 2024 Jacques Maritain Prize in Nonfiction
Dappled Things is pleased to announce the winners of our 2024 Jacques Maritain Prize for Nonfiction.