Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Friday Links
Paul Celan’s Via Negativa; The Cordial Catholic with Shemaiah Gonzalez; Tolkien and Tech; Hildegard, Tarkovsky, Citrus Trees; Cinema Paradiso and the sacrament of cinema; B. H. Fairchild ~ PoetryLA Interview Series
The Stories Are True
The Lord of the Rings, The Wingfeather Saga, and the role of the Christian fantasy author.
Friday Links
Magnifica Humanitas; Idols of the Valley; Real and the Unreal; Cheap Tradsploitation of “Yesteryear”; How Occultists Remade the World; "The Novel: A Survival Skill"
The Untethered Theology of Morrissey
Morrissey exemplifies the conundrum of post-Christian post-modernity: “I feel no pull towards the church, but I understand that there is nothing else.”
Friday Links
Frost Farm Prize Winner Announced; As of Fire: Poets and Pentecost; Sam Kahn: How I Learned to Read Again; Stories That Show the Examined Life Is Very Much Worth Living
The Spiritual Richness of Babette’s Feast
A film that still rekindles our awe at the magic of daily life
Friday Links
From Fame to Faith Through a Broken Statue | Kevin Matthews; Matthew Schmitz on Our Strange Catholic Moment ; William H. Pritchard: A Lifetime Enterprise, The last essays of Helen Vendler; Henry Oliver on Jonathan Swift’s Frustrated Humor; Jason Reid on Juster’s Petrarch; POETICS Podcast: Episode Scattered Rhymes: A.M. Juster's Canzoniere and the Art of Falling in Love Again
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