Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Are horror movies prophetic?
Mike Schramm offers an apologia for the horror movie genre.
Friday Links
A.E. Stallings, Luke Stromberg, and Nicholas Friedman at Head House Books; New Verse Review Halloween Party; Titus Techera on Why Novels Used To Matter, And Still Can; Concerning the Death of Catholic Fiction: An Author’s Perspective; Thomist Poets with John Morris; Can the Humanities Be Saved?
Fertility
Beth Casteel explores fertility, spiritual motherhood, and how we define ourselves.
Friday Links
Ernest Hilbert Reading at Fergie’s; Does God Exist?; A Voice from Deep Space; “The Dream” by Paul J. Pastor; The Fatima Sun Miracle: Much More Than You Wanted To Know; How Muriel Spark became a late bloomer
10 shocking pronouncements by the Chorus in Romeo & Juliet
Part 2 of John McGee’s startling, well-researched interpretation of Shakespeare’s classic play.
Friday Links
2025 J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction
The 2025 J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction is now open!
10 shocking pronouncements by the Chorus in Romeo & Juliet
John McGee offers a startling, well-researched interpretation of Shakespeare’s classic play.
Friday Links
Ode to the Indies; The Middle-Distance Poem: An Elegy; John Wilson on Muriel Spark; The Protector of Our Nazareths; CR Episode 289: E.A. Robinson’s Gothic Verse
Europe in these times
Sacramentality and the Mystery Man
Friday Links
Christian in wheelchair killed while livestreaming his faith in France; The misuse of Seuss Children’s literature is getting dumber; Sam Franzini on Jordan Castro’s Muscle Man; John F. Deane at the Percy French Festival; Louisiana Arts & Culture Festival
She forces us to think
Mike Dillon writes on art and poetry surrounding the legacy of St. Joan of Arc.
How to fight the machine
A review of Paul Kingsnorth’s new book Against the Machine.
Friday Links
Poetry reading: Mariani, Turner, and Wilson at the Catholic Imagination Conference; Poetry, Nature and Science: A Conversation with Frederick Turner; An Interview with Boris Dralyuk; Scattered Thoughts on the State of Book Reviews; NVR: A Tribute to Jane Greer
Bright soft things
Catholicism and the art of Baroque poetry in Richard Crashaw’s “The Tear”
Friday Links
The Catholic Writer Today: A Retrospective Interview with Dana Gioia a Decade Later; Poetry in an Age of Diminishing Life in Public; What Happens If No One Reads; Criteria: Triumph of the Heart; Interintellect reads J.C.Scharl’s Sonnez Les Matines
Evangeliaries
A book review of Evangeliaries: Poems by Philip C. Kolin.
The wary monk of Westmalle
When it comes to living with monks, one author gets more than he bargained for
Friday Links
The Machine Sessions: Caroline Ross; Carmelite Quotes; Learning to Love Someone Besides Yourself: A Reading of Augustine’s Confessions; Who Forgot About Beauty? And Why?; Charles Camosy: We’ve seen ‘designer babies’ before; Talk to Me In Long Lines: A Journal of ("Long) Narrative Verse and Dramatic Monologues; Buc-ee’s and The Infinite American Spirit
The humility of Odysseus
Somewhat counter-culturally for the time, Odysseus is the story of a man bent groundward, burying his pride alongside his winnowing fan.