Lorenzo Monaco, Nativity, ca. 1406–10 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Christmas Critics

A Year of Reading in Review

By The Editors

December 25, 2018

Article

Gossip & Insight

Edmund White knew that writers were most compelling when exploring a subject they were of two minds about: when they could see it from one angle, then another.

December 15, 2018

Article

War, Commentary, Shipwrecks

A carefully selected trio of diaries and diary-like works

November 19, 2018

Article

Making Room for Something New

What does it mean to be receptive to the wild and divine?

November 19, 2018

Article

There & Back Again

A collection of stocking stuffers for a commuter you love

December 8, 2018

Article

Beyond the Bright Lights

In spite of all the ambition and selfishness that New York supposedly represents, I’ve found that the city’s density has encouraged me to forget myself.

December 28, 2018

Article

Joy to the World

December can also offer a radical break with the hustle and bustle. Advent promises a fuller sense of time.

December 1, 2018

Must Reads

Politics

The Coming Populist Showdown

Successful Democratic candidates will be unapologetic in their embrace of multiracial democracy and just as fierce in their denouncement of plutocrats

By Sam Adler-Bell

March 4, 2019

Religion

Why I Left the Church...and Returned

The Catholic Church today is in crisis. But it is not the hierarchy alone who belong in sackcloth and ashes, begging forgiveness; all of us must become penitents.

By Kathleen Hill

February 25, 2019

Culture

Giving Up Extremes

As Lent approaches, I’ve been in a state of spiritual anxiety over the inevitable renunciation that the season demands. God wants harmonious balance, not excess

By Nicole-Ann Lobo

March 3, 2019