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What We’ve Been Reading—April 2021

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What We’ve Been Reading—March 2021

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What We've Been Reading—January 2021

Our editors' recent musings on Glenn Arbery, Dana Gioia, Lauren Oyler, and Rumer Godden. Continue Reading »

What We’ve Been Reading—September 2020

Thoughts on E. D. Hirsch, Michael Pollan, and Elena Ferrante from the editors.  Continue Reading »

What We've Been Reading—August 2020

The editors of First Things muse on what they're currently reading.
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What We've Been Reading—5.27.16

Take the train to Brussels, walk across the Warendepark, and into the Berlaymont building. This is the home of the European Commission. Depending on which entomologist you consult, it is either the cocoon from which a new Europe will emerge or the center of a vast spider-web of regulation that is choking the continent.

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What We've Been Reading—5.13.16

After reading the list of demands that black students at Oberlin College issued to the Oberlin leadership awhile back, I needed a quick antidote, which I found in the Port Huron Statement of 1962. Continue Reading »

What We've Been Reading—4.29.16

In anticipation of a film adaptation by Martin Scorsese (due this fall), I read Shusaku Endo’s Silence. It’s the story of a Jesuit priest, the most polished product of the counter-reformation Church, sailing to Japan and there encountering brutal persecution.

What We've Been Reading—2.12.16

Francesca Murphy On the night after the actor Alan Rickman died, I watched the version of Sense and Sensibility in which he plays Colonel Brandon. What a beautiful movie, and what a wonderful performance he gives. Since then I have been reading Sense and Senibility on my kindle. Jane Austen was . . . . Continue Reading »