November 2016
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Sabbath Alone
The sun falls between the leaves outside the kitchen window as I prepare for my first Sabbath…
Read Their Lips
There has been a lot of teeth-gnashing over the many extreme, and extremely silly, things being said…
We Are Not Tools
During my time at Princeton, there was no more popular insult than “tool,” an epithet hurled at…
Letters
Deplorable In his August/September column, “Bigot-Baiting,” R. R. Reno charges that the Democratic Party is largely a…
Election 2016
It’s a full-throated endorsement of Donald Trump’s candidacy. Written with pungency, “The Flight 93 Election” was published…
The End of Christendom
Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450–1650 by carlos m. n. eire yale, 920 pages, $40 Next year…
The Sentimentality Trap
A textbook I use for my introductory poetry classes, the classic Western Wind, defines sentimentality as “emotion…
What the Novelist Knows
The novelist and diarist Julien Green described in his diary a conversation he had with a French…
Catholicism in an Age of Discontent
We are at a turning point. For the past fifty years the Catholic Church has taken an…
Whistling Past the Grave
When we talk about the key shifts of the twentieth century—those involving politics, trade, consumption, art—we leave…
Old Possum in Full Glory
The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: The Critical Edition, Vols. 1–4 edited by ronald schuchard et…
In Defense of George Bell
George Bell, Bishop of Chichester: Church, State, and Resistance in the Age of Dictatorship by andrew chandler…
A Joyful Misanthrope
Ninety-Nine Stories of God by joy williams tin house, 168 pages, $19.95 Joy Williams has often been…
A Reality Novel
The Once and Future King by t. h. white penguin galaxy, 736 pages, $30 Terence Hanbury White…
Boarding in Town for School
The trick was to beasleep before the rail signalmanwhispered in with his latestgirl off the midnight train…
