Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Friday Links
with John Wilson in Comment, Micah Mattix in The Washington Examiner, E.J. Hutchinson in Ad Fontes, From the Archives: Jess Sweeney and Lee Nowell-Wilson
Looking for the Vita Nuova
Dante used the Vita Nuova to create a persona who’d reach his full potential within the allegorical journey starting in the dark woods of a depressed middle age and winding upwards from hell to purgatory to heaven. He played a literary long game, enticing the reader to roll her eyes and think, “Get a grip,” as he roiled words around his attraction to Beatrice.
Friday Links
with James Matthew Wilson, Sir James MacMillan, Benedict XVI Institute, Ryan Ruby on A.E. Stallings, Dr. Timothy McDonnell, and Mary Grace Mangano
Volunteers for Blessed Stanley
A volunteer docent describes the festivities surrounding the dedication of a magnificent shrine honoring our first American-born Catholic martyr, Fr. Stanley Francis Rother.
Friday Links
with Cynthia Haven, Dana Gioia, Micah Mattix, Sally Thomas, Randy Boyagoda, Ryan Wilson, & Haley Stewart
Friday Links
with Nathan Beacom, Jacques Maritain Prize winners, Makoto Fujimura, Davin Heckman, Sarah Horgan, and the UST Summer Reading Series
Winners of the 2022 Jacques Maritain Prize for Nonfiction!
Our Winners of the 2022 Jacques Maritain Prize for Nonfiction!
Seeking Emily
Emily Dickinson’s house and herbarium were formative in shaping her poetry.
Friday Links
with Peter Vertacnik, Joshua Hren, Joseph Pearce, Fare Forward, Christina Hsu, Eleanor Parker
The Sacred Heart Art Competition
Despite its venerable history, few (if any) artistic depictions of the Sacred Heart could be counted among the great works that exist within the treasury of Catholic sacred art. Some of the most widespread images present sentimentalized portraits of a Jesus with doe eyes, Pantene hair, and what appears to be rouge on his cheeks, which are at least as likely to discourage devotion as to promote it.
On the closing of Spencer Brewery
Western culture seems to have a unique attachment to its institutions not solely as a link to its ancestors and its past, but because it sees the future potential in the nascent creations of its present.
Friday Links
with Ethan McGuire on A.E. Stallings, Trevor Cribben Merrill, Gary Saul Morson on Joseph Epstein, Lee Oser: What is the Relationship Between Books and a Healthy Culture?
A place of quiet in Rome
“The Basilica of Santa Sabina bridges the transition from the covered, public, multi-use Roman basilicas, or forums, to the churches of early Christendom. Santa Sabina also provides us with a view of what Old St. Peter’s Basilica looked like, which was completed almost a century earlier on a much larger scale. Santa Sabin’s architectural style is often termed Romanesque, but it’s not. The Romanesque emerged towards the 11th century. Santa Sabina is Roman.”
Friday Links
on The Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus with Cormac McCarthy, John Cuddeback, a poem from James Joyce, a story by Michael F. Flynn, summer reading series on the Catholic Imagination with The Hank Center
About that Padre Pio film…
As Dappled Things readers know, one age-old dilemma for artists is the line between portraying evil and being complicit in it.
Friday Links
with Dr. Kelly Scott Franklin, Aarik Danielsen in Fathom, Jessica Hooten Wilson in Church Life Journal, Aaron Weinacht reviews Eugene Vodolazkin’s A History of the Island , B.D. McClay,, JMW on Zena Hitz, Gwyneth Thompson-Briggs
Murder by Any Other Name
Jeffrey Wald reflects on death with dignity. Fiction doesn’t always connect to reality and words can be used for good or ill.
Friday Links
with Clare Coffey in Plough, First Things Foundation interview with Eugene Vodolazkin, Rachel Lu in America Magazine, Daniel McInerny: On Keeping Yourself Unfit for the Modern World, and Katy Carl
We still have no Catholic fiction?
Or, maybe there’s great Catholic fiction all around if we only have eyes to see. Here are the beginnings of a fantastic reading list from our managing editor, Katy Carl.
Our 2022 J. F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction Winners!
Dappled Things is very pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction.