
Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
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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.

Friday Links
Singing the Counter-Revolution: Ryan Wilson Interviews EPB; Lu’ella D’Amico:The Sound of Accompaniment: Brian Wilson, Catholicism, and the Spiritual Life of Boys; Caught Up in the Drift; Chris Childers: Birthdays, Roman and Otherwise; Matthew Milliner: Julian for Everyone

How the five-paragraph essay fails students
Oso Guardiola meditates on the foibles inherent in the 5-paragraph essay with an argument that, unfortunately, is not a 5-paragraph essay.
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On writing today
The motivations to write are mysterious. Christopher Mari argues that we write, in part, because no one is ever alone.

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