The Summer Reading List

by George Weigel

These books will help make your summer enjoyable, instructive, or both. Continue Reading »

4 Jul 2018

Reno’s Books

by Mark Bauerlein

Featuring First Things editor R. R. Reno on the books that formed him in youth. Continue Reading »

29 Jun 2018

“Among the Dangs”

by John Wilson

John Wilson discusses American fiction of the ’50s and ’60s.  Continue Reading »

22 Jun 2018

The Man Who Stole the World

by John Waters

Bowie was a canary in the coal mine of post-1960s culture, plumbing its depths and soaring above almost everyone else. Continue Reading »

12 Jun 2018

Thinking Under the Influence

by John Wilson

There was, and still is today, a photo of Sinyavsky on one of my bookshelves. Continue Reading »

8 Jun 2018

The View from Here Is Glory

by Daniel Rattelle

Joshua Hren's new collection of stories, This Our Exile, presents an authentically Catholic fiction. Continue Reading »

22 May 2018

Versions of Paul

by John Wilson

Why do so many books on the Apostle Paul appear every year?  Continue Reading »

11 May 2018

In For the Long Haul

by John Wilson

A reader has a special relationship with a living writer whose books he or she has been reading as they appeared over the years. Continue Reading »

27 Apr 2018

Air Turbulence and the Resurrection

by George Weigel

For all the challenges it faces, the Church in the U.S. is in far better condition to withstand the turbulence of the moment than it was forty years ago.  Continue Reading »

4 Apr 2018

Recompense For a Serious Mistake

by George Weigel

Why not use some of that leftover Christmas money to buy a book by Leon Kass? Continue Reading »

10 Jan 2018