Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Friday Links
Announcing the 2025 J.F. Powers Prize for Fiction Finalists; Thomist Poets Reading: Eric Cyr; Faith and Imagination Podcast with Paul Pastor; New Verse Review: Translation Issue; Infinite Jest, the Internet, and the Politics of Reading; Little Magazines Are Back
Announcing the 2025 J.F. Powers Prize for Fiction Finalists
Covetousness: A Short Memoir
How covetousness breaks our relationship with beauty.
Friday Links
Our 20th Anniversary Issue is Here!; Civility: The Invisible Glue of Society; Gay Talese on a Writer’s Life; A Gracious and Modest Punch to the Gut; Godson by Steve Knepper
Go to the Literature
“Go to the literature,” Joan Didion writes. She’s wrong, but also, she’s right. It depends on the literature.
Friday Links
Thomist Poets Reading Series with Eric Cyr; Joie de Vivre: A Call for Art Submissions Letter to WB Yeats ☘️ In Is Free — Famous Letter Writer; Barbara Gonzalez: Time Capsule; Hélène de Lauzun on Discovering Chartreuse Elixir: A Very Spiritual Spirit; Bishop Erik Varden on Cinema | Criteria: The Catholic Film Podcast
What Hides Inside a Body
On the necessity of food, both physical and spiritual, and what hidden miracles we might be nourishing.
Friday Links
The Dream of the Rood; Poetry's Austere and Lonely Offices; Mental Sufferings of Our Lord in His Passion; A Life in Poetry: Cambridge, Larkin, and Writing a PhD; Faith in the Furnace of Doubt
Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times
Does Chaplin’s comedy masterpiece have spiritual value?
Friday Links
Manifesto! A Podcast: The Information State; Jeff Reimer on a Good Birth, Good Death; March issue of Talk to Me in Long Lines; J. E. McBride: Unto Death: A review of Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life; Sigrid Undset and Willa Cather: A Literary Friendship; Louis Markos: Peter Kreeft on C.S. Lewis’s “Till We Have Faces”
Portraits of Being
Sartre and Girard on Existentialism and Being
“With excitement and confidence”: Dappled Things Announces Editorial Change
Owing to pressing family matters, editor in chief Rhonda Ortiz has decided to step away from the magazine. Longtime associate editor Andrew Calis has agreed to take her place, starting with the SS. Peter & Paul 2026 issue.
Friday Links
Mr Blue, the Holy Fool
Myles Connolly’s classic novel explores the concept of the Holy Fool, a long-standing if underdeveloped literary trope.
Friday Links
The Poet’s Vision: Ryan Wilson on Poetic Hospitality; Thomas Gainsborough’s Portraits of Pride and Prejudice; Alasdair MacIntyre Reads Jane Austen Reading Her Late Modern Reader; Family lore from the Ireland of yore; George Scialabba on The Moral Beauty of Middlemarch
On miracles
Daniel Fitzpatrick tells of a remarkable miracle that took place in his life and muses on the power of miracles to sharpen our experience to the miraculous in everyday life.
What gets lost in Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights”
There is no crime in Fennell’s decision to create a unique interpretation of Wuthering Heights, but the choice to stray from the text has consequences.
Friday Links
This ‘Screwtape for Our Times’ Will Challenge and Confound You; Father Donald Haggerty with Siobhan Fallon Hogan | Catholics and Cappuccinos 4; An Apologia for the Novel and a Defense of Permanent Things; At the Edge of Sand and Sky; Back of the Book podcast with Sunil Iyengar: Stories in Stanzas
The magical and the mystical
How Christian mysticism answers Pico della Mirandola’s vision for a more integrated knowledge.
Friday Links
Ryan Wilson in Conversation with J.C. Scharl and Paul Pastor; T. S. Eliot: “Ash Wednesday”; Trinity in Aquinas: Psychological Analogy as Social Analogy with Michael J. Higgins; The Conservative Christian Literary Ecosystem; “Snowdrops”; Benedict XVI on Science, Philosophy, & Faith