What We’ve Been Reading—March 2023
by EditorsOur editors reflect on Gustave Flaubert, Anglo-Saxon illustrations, Yuko Tsushima, C. S. Lewis, and James Herriot. Continue Reading »
Our editors reflect on Gustave Flaubert, Anglo-Saxon illustrations, Yuko Tsushima, C. S. Lewis, and James Herriot. Continue Reading »
Our world stands at a moment of anthropological crisis. Advent offers us each an opportunity to reflect upon how Christ, God Incarnate, offers a vision of humanity that speaks to humanity’s deepest needs. Continue Reading »
Neither Lewis nor our Lord, along their respective damp and dusty ways, hiked. They walked. Continue Reading »
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World by christopher de hamel penguin, 640 pages, $45 Illuminated manuscripts remain cultural touchstones of the Middle Ages, symbols of forgotten learning, mystery, and beauty. Unfortunately, they are often locked away in . . . . Continue Reading »
A Song of Ice and Fire by george r. r. martin bantam, 5216 pages, $36.39 No English child will ever again experience, as I did, the joys of Arthur Conan Doyle’s great historical romances The White Company and Sir Nigel, set in the far-off fourteenth century. The remaining . . . . Continue Reading »
A new rendition of Shadowlands, the drama based on the story of C. S. Lewis and Joy Davidman, is now playing in Manhattan. Continue Reading »
There’s something very modern, very grim about reading church reviews on Yelp. Washington’s Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle won one from a reviewer who identified himself as True Detective’s Rust Cohle: “I come here to contemplate the moment before the crucifixion.” Continue Reading »
The First World War lingers in the memory as humanity’s first encounter with industrialized killing on a mass scale. New weapons of the machine age obliterated forests, villages and fields—an entire way of life. This new type of war also deeply shaped the thinking of men who experienced it . . . . Continue Reading »
The name they chose for their group was, J. R. R. Tolkien self-effacingly recalls, “a pleasantly ingenious pun . . . suggesting people with vague or half-formed intimations and ideas plus those who dabble in ink.” The description conjures a picture of “donnish dreaminess,” a rag-tag band of tweed-clad writers who met for a pint from time to time. Continue Reading »
David Mills has found himself in trouble—for making the stunning claim that conservative Catholics are not conservative Protestants, and conservative Protestants are not conservative Catholics. Continue Reading »