Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Spiritual Electric Shock Therapy
Why today’s writers need G. K. Chesterton
Friday Links
with Rhonda Ortiz, Ross Douthat, Eric Cyr on Joe Pug, Kathryn Jean Lopez, & Antigone Journal
The horn and the harmonium
Joshua Hren’s novel is a book for the moment in which America now finds itself.
Friday Links
Rand Richards Cooper on The Shredder’s Trade; God’s Little Flowers by Lindsay Schlegel; Shemaiah Gonzalez on “Building a vibrant Catholic culture through artistic virtues”; The Dean Abbott Podcast with Jane Greer; Missed Connections: Jessica Swoboda on Rachel Cusk’s Parade
Losing to win
How the “long defeat” shaped the writing of Walker Percy.
Friday Links
“Uses of Water” by A.M. Juster; Kazuo Robinson reviews Ali Smith’s Gliff; Constellation of Genius: Miłosz, Camus, Einstein, and Weil by Cynthia L. Haven; five days of flames by Avedis Maljanian; How Should Catholics Respond to the Immigration Crisis?
Hell is (no) other people
The time for taking ideas like extreme individualism and solipsism is past
Friday Links
The Lessons of Fr. Paul Mankowski; Oíche na Gaoithe Móire; A Crisis of Seriousness by Jon Bishop; Catholic Culture Podcast with Susannah Black Roberts; Jordan Castro on Recovering from Heroin and Fiction; The Secret of Opera Revealed with Dana Gioia
Pity and terror - the tragedy of Cormac McCarthy
Daniel Fitzpatrick asks if it’s possible to untangle the legacy of a man from his art
Friday Links
New Verse Review and Ekstasis; Thomist Poets with Paige Parker; James Matthew Wilson review Jason Baxter’s Inferno; Raymond N. MacKenzie on Balzac; Daniel Pitt on Roger Scruton; A Shroud for Our Skeptical Times; Objects of Fascination by Peter Hitchens; The Pattern by The Reflection Box
Catholic Song in a Secular World
Eric Cyr discusses the Catholic imagination in secular songwriting.
Friday Links
A Deep Dive Into Contemporary Catholic Poetry with Ryan Wilson; The Lough Derg Podcast with Lanta Davis; Jeffrey Reimer: Images of the Invisible God; Jon Sweeney on Catechist Nicholas Black Elk in the Aftermath of the European Invasion; Thomist Poets Reading Series with Paige Parker; S. P. Cooper on King Arthur’s Youth: Growing Up in the Once and Future King
Friendship is an Oasis
Death Comes for the Archbishop reveals that sometimes friends have to be apart. Friendship is an oasis on the journey and sometimes moving on is the only way out of the desert.
Friday Links
Uncommon Grace: The Life of Flannery O’Connor; James Matthew Wilson on “Most of the Prodigies…”; Nimrod Journal Writing Contest; The Mystery of Consciousness: Dr. Iain McGilchrist’s Keynote at Kinross House; Patrick Kurp on the Underappreciated Jane Greer: ‘Be Able to Call It a Poem’
Dante’s new year
The Purgatorio prepares us for all that is about to come
Friday Links
Andy Fowler: The Best & Worst Movies I Watched in 2024; Anthony Domestico: The Best Books of 2024; Our Lady of Emptiness by Matthew J. Milliner; How to Give a Real Gift by Tara Isabella Burton; Manifesto! A Podcast
The Elf and the Inferno
Daniel Fitzpatrick makes the case that everyone’s favorite Christmas Elf, Buddy, is a modern-day Dante.
Friday Links
While All the Earth in Darkness Sleeps; The Ghosts in the Machine: Spotify’s Plot Against Musicians; Out of the Vortex; The Big Five Publishers Have Killed Literary Fiction; Black Elk's Gift of Healing; T.S. Eliot and Abraham Lincoln: Christian Humanists
We Are Starved for Wonder: A Call to Arms
We’ll be publishing our twentieth anniversary edition next year, so you would think by now we’d have that nailed down and distilled into a pithy “elevator pitch.” Still, I found myself recently thinking about our mission again, and how it shapes our journal.
Advent Novena Meditation: Day 4
Reading for December 19.