Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
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
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
A telegram changed the course of literature
How Jack Kerouac was saved from a famous shipwreck
When re-enchantment isn’t enough
Getting into the “enchantment” debate
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
On Jon Raymond’s book God and Sex
What it means to take prayer seriously.
Friday Links
Does God Exist by Peggy Rosenthal; Why I’m Done with Notre Dame; Quillette Podcast #324: Guests of the Nation; Interesting Times with Ross Douthat with Anthropic’s CEO: ‘We Don’t Know if the Models Are Conscious’; Writer’s Against AI; A glimpse at the obscure life of a medieval English 'anchoress'; The Sonneteer
Notes from the children’s section of the library
Daniel Fitzpatrick’s plea to not limit children to only certain sections of the library.
Friday Links
Weldon Kees: The Disappearing Poet; Night in July: A new poem by Weldon Kees; Tim Rudderow on Used Books; BEHOLD THE MAN! A Wayfare Poetry Contest; Melanie McDonagh on Converts: Graham Greene's Fraught Relationship with the Confessional; Shrove Tuesday; Cold Is a State of Mind; The Thomist Poets with Tamara Nicholl-Smith
Life, death, and mushrooms
Things on this earth are more interconnected than we might think.
Friday Links
2026 Jane Greer Memorial Poetry Contest; Ben Myers on Poetry and the Permanent Things; David Torkington on The Interior Castle; Fra Angelico Etched the Divine in Stone; Nadya Williams on The Haunted Fiction of George Saunders; The Back of the Book Podcast
Announcing the 2026 Jane Greer Memorial Poetry Contest
Thanks to the generosity of the Catholic literary community, and with the blessing of Jane’s family, Dappled Things announces the 2026 Jane Greer Memorial Poetry Contest, for the best poems submitted to the journal this year.
My trip to Yaddo
Exploring the place that had so much influence on Flannery O’Connor, among so many other writers.
Friday Links
Murder Mysteries and the Mysteries of Faith
Why do Catholics love murder mysteries so much?