September 2024

"My brain is no longer a hive buzzing with new ideas for novels. My body tells me that seventy isn’t the new fifty or sixty. The immutable truth is that I’m old."

David Jones’ 'In Parenthesis' is "the greatest work of modernist poetry you’ve never read."

Anne Carson’s newest collection of essays and poems probes the relationship between art and suffering.

In a Mexico City migrant encampment, conditions are staggeringly poor—and gaining entry to the United States is the ultimate hope.

"We’re trying very hard to persuade people who don’t know anything about who we are, or what 'Catholic' stands for, of our values and our identity."

"Clinging to space closes off any hope for peace, while exile exposes the Jews to the dangers of the Diaspora."

Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn’s memoir is a testament to the depth of a daughter’s love—and an act of faith in our better human instincts.

"Homilies make illiterates of us all. We receive them aurally or we don’t receive them: from the preacher’s lips to our ears."

J. D. Vance's 'Hillbilly Elegy,' reconsidered.