The Christ of Marc Chagall

From the April 2014 Print Edition

It recently became widely known that the favorite painting of Pope Francis is the White Crucifixion by Marc Chagall. The news stirred up considerable speculation and controversy. Chagall, born Moishe Segal in the Polish-Lithuanian village of Vitebsk (now in Belarus), was probably the most prominent . . . . Continue Reading »

God’s Patient Stet

From the June/July 2011 Print Edition

It is a sobering thought that Richard Wilbur, the two-time Pulitzer Prize“winning poet (1957, 1989) who was named poet laureate of the United States in 1987, is now ninety years old. David Orr, in a recent Sunday book review in the New York Times , has aptly enough called him “the Grand . . . . Continue Reading »