Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Here It Snows In June
Finding strange grace in Eric Cyr’s new book of short stories
The Difficulty of Silence
Silence accumulates. It notices us.
Friday Links
Announcing the Winners of the 2025 Jacques Maritain Prize for Nonfiction; The Wrong Kind of Black Poet; Why Portico? Micah Mattix and R.R. Reno talk about their new magazine; A Small Rebellion Against the Machine’; The Laughter of the Father; Tod Worner and Katy Carl talk about Luminor
Announcing the Winners of the 2025 Jacques Maritain Prize for Nonfiction
Between History and Now
The past doesn’t wait. It isn’t really even the past.
Friday Links
The Angelic Painter; Finding the Blue Hour; How Occultists Remade the World; Wendy Cope: why I won’t stop reading Philip Larkin; Robert Penn Warren’s “All the King’s Men”: The Agony of Will
Announcing the Winners of the 2025 J.F. Powers Prize for Fiction
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.