Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Dappled Things at the End of a World
Paul Kingsnorth has summed up the civilizational path we have been walking for centuries now as an attempt to create a machine that can replace God. Yet the more we act as little gods, the more our societies have sunk into a crisis of meaning. Read about DT’s marching orders for the next twenty years of the journal.
Humor and wisdom in Bergman’s Wild Strawberries
Another entry in our series on the Vatican list of recommended films.
Friday Links
In praise of poetic simplicity
John Donne, Dunstan Thompson, and the art of plain-style prayer.
Friday Links
Breaking Down the Walls of Time; The World Beneath the Couch Cushions; TS Eliot’s 20th-century nightmare; This 1,200-Page Poetry Book Affirms Seamus Heaney’s Towering Genius; The Translated Word; A Thrill of Hope: The Weary World Rejoices with Shemaiah Gonzalez
Harry Clarke’s window into Our Lady of Sorrows
Lanta Davis offers a meditation on a highly unusual artwork
Chemo dreams
Flannery O’Connor said that sickness is a place where no one can follow you
Friday Links
Richie Rich and Brighton Beach
Are we all poor little rich boys? Christopher Mari reminisces about childhood in America.
Friday Links
Chaffins: 4 Lessons from Solanus Casey;Climbing The Magic Mountain today Thomas Mann’s novel is an antidote to nihilism; Why I’ve started re-reading novels; Seeing Goodness More Clearly; Luma Simms interview Nathanael Blake on his new book Victims of the Sexual Revolution: How Sexual Liberation Hurt Us All; Wiseblood Books Fundraiser Critique Packages; Talk to Me in Long Lines
Death calls collect
On Muriel Spark’s under-rated classic Memento Mori, a fitting read for All Soul’s Day.
Friday Links
Lydwine: Goodbye Home; Margaret of Cortona Repents; Art, Life, and the Sonnet: Angela Alaimo O’Donnell; On Literary Citizenship and the Secret to Small Press Publishing Success; James Matthew Wilson on Catholic Poetry and the Culture of Beauty
Are horror movies prophetic?
Mike Schramm offers an apologia for the horror movie genre.
Friday Links
A.E. Stallings, Luke Stromberg, and Nicholas Friedman at Head House Books; New Verse Review Halloween Party; Titus Techera on Why Novels Used To Matter, And Still Can; Concerning the Death of Catholic Fiction: An Author’s Perspective; Thomist Poets with John Morris; Can the Humanities Be Saved?
Fertility
Beth Casteel explores fertility, spiritual motherhood, and how we define ourselves.
Friday Links
Ernest Hilbert Reading at Fergie’s; Does God Exist?; A Voice from Deep Space; “The Dream” by Paul J. Pastor; The Fatima Sun Miracle: Much More Than You Wanted To Know; How Muriel Spark became a late bloomer
10 shocking pronouncements by the Chorus in Romeo & Juliet
Part 2 of John McGee’s startling, well-researched interpretation of Shakespeare’s classic play.
Friday Links
2025 J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction
The 2025 J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction is now open!
10 shocking pronouncements by the Chorus in Romeo & Juliet
John McGee offers a startling, well-researched interpretation of Shakespeare’s classic play.