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

Engaging Confederate Nostalgia

For those of us who have a visceral objection to Confederate Memorial Day, how should we engage a worldview that embraces the mythology of the Lost Cause?

By Richard Brown

May 10, 2023

Religion

St. Philip Neri’s Eucharistic Joy

Philip Neri is just the kind of saint we need: a model of lightness of spirit, divine laughter, and extraordinary ordinariness.

By John Rodden

May 26, 2023

Culture

Reckoning With Birth

Birth is one of humanity’s most under-explored subjects. Minimizing birth diminishes one of the greatest powers humans have had: the creation of life itself.

By Jennifer Banks

May 26, 2023