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

Just Call It Fascism

The thinly veiled fascism of Russian “philosopher” Alexander Dugin has attracted right-wing attention and admiration.

By Matt McManus

November 27, 2022

Religion

Call It ‘Exculturation’

We're seeing an unbinding of the deep affinity between representations of culture and Catholic culture. How did Catholicism come to be seen as the enemy?

By Massimo Faggioli

December 19, 2022