St. Augustine's Phenomenology of Modern Fashion's Logic
Robert Covolo on what clothes make of the man.
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Simone Weil's Beautiful Shipwreck
Scott Beauchamp on Simone Weil's double vision.
The Mind of a Mother and Maker
Jessica Hooten Wilson on the legacy of Dorothy L. Sayers.
Longfellow's Christmas Bells and a Better America
Joshua Whitfield on the dream of a better America.
The Plane Where Nietzsche and Jane Austen Meet
Angela Franks on surfaces and relationships.
The Basilica of the Sacred Heart: From Empty Pockets to Stained Glass
Nancy Cavadini and Cecilia Davis Cunningham on the deeply French-Catholic history of the Notre Dame basilica's windows.
Louise Glück and the Return From Oblivion
Ewa Chrusciel on the Nobelist's apophatic inclinations.
The Wobbly Chronology of Disenchantment
Haley Stewart on the dated idea of progress and the novel Piranesi.
Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Beauty of Forgetting
Cyril O'Regan on productive forgetfulness within the Tradition.
John Banville and the Redemption of Art
Cyril O'Regan on the novel and whether art saves.
Grace Must Come for the Debased and Unworthy
Morgan Meis on the Rubens family, betrayal, and forgiveness.
Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth Sermon
Adam Horn on a forgotten masterpiece and a particularly American brand of Manicheanism.
The Fury That Destroys the World
Michael Murphy on Nietzsche's Catholic double.
Bodying Forth the Classics: A Manifesto
Jessica Hooten Wilson on leaving the academy but staying with literature.
Roberto Calasso and the Progress of the Novel
Scott Beauchamp on Roberto Calasso's achievement and the future of the novel.
The Good Place Wave and the Restless Heart
Roberto De La Noval on the overlooked theological content of The Good Place and its finale.
The American Book of the Dead
Scott Beauchamp on Don DeLillo's White Noise as the ultimate quarantine read.
From a Consumerist Death, Deliver Us O Lord
Jessica Hooten Wilson on the consumerist evasion of mortality.
The Afterlife of Bergman's The Seventh Seal
David Griffith on watching the cinema classic after the death of Max von Sydow and during a pandemic.
Camus and the Great Conundrum
Steven Garber on The Plague—a surprise recent bestseller.
A Society Riddled with Suspicion and Paranoia
Suzanne Wolfe writing in a genre in which crime and punishment are alive and well.
On Reading Well After Virtue
Karen Swallow-Prior on the virtues of reading and virtuous readers.
The Art of Madness and Mystery
Michael Shindler retrieves modern art's place in art history.
A Hidden Life Hides Too Much of Franz Jägerstätter's Life
Shawn Storer reviews Terence Malick's A Hidden Life.
Sacramentality on the Western Front
Josh Noem takes a close look at 1917's Catholic details.
The Personal Stakes of The Two Popes
Tim Kelleher gives two-thumbs up to The Two Popes.
The Nature of Gothic and Modern Oblivion
John Ruskin on the humanizing elements of the Gothic period and their recent disappearance.
All This Useless Beauty
Jessica Hooten Wilson discusses the countercultural power of beauty.
A Story of Divorce as Self-Realization
Anna Keating reviews Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story.
Fleabag, Fully-Clothed
Roberto De La Noval explores the hit show Fleabag and the depths of desire.