Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Friday Links
Gary Saul Morton: A Question of Purpose: On Translating Russian Literature; The Heroism of Homeric Women; Paul Willis: Greetings on a Morning Walk; Alfred Nicol’s Frost Farm Conference Keynote; A Life in Fiction: John Wilson on the books that stick with us; “The Tear” by Richard Crashaw
An open letter to Pope Leo XIV
…So, you see, I had an opinion of you 30 minutes after you were elected. It was this: “The Pope,” I said to my students first and then to myself many times in the following days, “has probably been to White Castle.”
Friday Links
M.I. Devine on poetry and unexploded bombs; Meeting David Jones at the laundromat; Jeffrey Bilbo: What Problem Does ChatGPT Solve?; Hermetic Angelology: Ryan Wilson on Versecraft; The Nile Flows into the Shannon
Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Dekalog
A deeper look at the Ten Commandments and how Kieslowski introduced the world to prestige television
Friday Links
In memory of Jane Greer
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?