What Was Literary Fiction?
Dan Sinykin at The Nation
Topic
History
A collection of 254 issues
The Reality of Fr. Damien
A few years ago, the future of the Catholic Church AOC said a statue of Fr. Damien of Molokai at the Capitol building is an example of “patriarchy and white supremacist culture.”
She quickly realized that she picked a bad example and backpedaled faster than Deion Sanders in his prime,
Shelby Foote: The South’s Jewish Proust
Blake Smith at The Tablet
The Fateful Nineties
Christopher Caldwell at First Things
Catholic Hagiographer Did LSD
It inspired a musical currently playing at NYC's Lincoln Center
Clare Boothe Luce. Brainy and beautiful. Married mega-publisher Henry Luce in 1935. Converted to Catholicism in 1946, then put together one of the greatest collections of short saint biographies ever.
Did LSD?
James Lapine, the director and
Nobody Ever Read American Literature Like This Guy Did
A.O. Scott at New York Times
John Crowe Ransom on Leisure
It's hard to pick a favorite essay from I'll Take My Stand, but the lead essay by John Crowe Ransom, "Unreconstructed but Unregenerate," is a leading candidate. The essay spends ample time criticizing what Joseph Pieper also condemned: the world of "total work.
Not Just Tulsa: Black Neighborhoods Were Often Destroyed by Urban-Renewal Policies
Howard Husock at City Journal
The Puritan Spirit of America's Civil War
David Samuels at UnHerd
A Micro History of the Holy Roman Empire
The HRE started when Charlemagne received the emperor crown from Pope Leo in 800 or when Otto got the crown from Pope John in 962. The HRE then went through twists and turns, up and downs, was controlled by the Hapsburg family starting in 1438, until it was dissolved under