July 2023

Siobhan Phillips’s debut novel posits learning, and the desire that drives it, as the very bedrock of character.

A prize-winning novel by the Italian writer rumored to be Elena Ferrante challenges the myth of the singular, self-made artist.

The Right has only survived and thrived by offering a vision of the future. Understanding the Right’s power requires understanding its rhetoric.

Trump’s entire project is to overturn the sexual and civil-rights revolutions. Jeff Sharlet’s new book suggests Trump has a whole army ready to help him.

Charles Freeman’s massive new history of the dawn of the Enlightenment fails to deeply consider the problems that drove intellectual development.

Why is there a picture of Martin Luther underneath the irreligious Paul Klee’s ‘Angelus Novus’?

Through his focus on synodality, Pope Francis is helping the Church walk together on a path of renewal.

Amid the suffering in the hospital, I experience glimpses of the Resurrection: people from all walks of life coming together to help those in need.

“Edward T. Wheeler was one of the most erudite and intellectually generous people I have ever known. He was also a great deal of fun.”