Books About Next to Nothing

by John Waters

Fiction is no longer a useful means of grappling with reality. Continue Reading »

10 Mar 2020

What We’ve Been Reading—March 2020

by Editors

Our thoughts on the books we've been reading. Continue Reading »

9 Mar 2020

Andrew Klavan’s Experimental Fiction

by John Wilson

John Wilson reviews Andrew Klavan’s The Nightmare Feast.  Continue Reading »

6 Mar 2020

Briefly Noted

by Various

In The River of the Immaculate Conception, James Matthew Wilson confirms his vocation as a public poet. Commissioned by the Benedict XVI Institute, this poem sequence of seven parts leads us through the lives of St. Juan Diego, St. ­Elizabeth Ann Seton, and Père Marquette, with interludes on . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2020

“Oh God”

by John Wilson

How does a writer respond to disaster? After the Quake is Murakami’s answer.  Continue Reading »

21 Feb 2020

What We’ve Been Reading—February 2020

by Editors

Mary VanderGoot’s Broken Glass was my nighttime reading last month.  Continue Reading »

7 Feb 2020

Desiderata

by John Wilson

These books deserve more widespread, in-depth attention.  Continue Reading »

7 Feb 2020

Man and Metropolis

by John Wilson

Cities invite hubris—not only outsized political ambitions but also intellectual ambitions.  Continue Reading »

24 Jan 2020

Sex, Celibacy, and the Latest Curiosity From Rome

by Francis X. Maier

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and Cardinal Robert Sarah see priestly celibacy, and the sacrifices (but also the joy) it entails, as vital to the life of the Church.  Continue Reading »

15 Jan 2020

Bodily Curiosities

by Joseph Epstein

I am not altogether incurious, but one entity about which I have over the years felt little curiosity is my own body. Until recently, I could not have told you the function of my, or anyone else’s, pancreas, spleen, or gallbladder. I’d just as soon not have known that I have kidneys, and was . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2020