Articles in this Issue
The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty
Giving a great American poet his due.
It Is What It Is
The poetry of Ted Kooser: plainspoken, not plain.
An Early Chinese Feminist
The powerful voice of He-Yin Zhen.
The Elusive Magic of Alain-Fournier
Rediscovering an idiosyncratic classic.
The Life of the “Summa”
A “biography” of Thomas Aquinas’s masterwork.
Trees of Knowledge
Much of what we think is new is old.
Border-Crossing with Tomas Tranströmer
In our solitary journeys to the interior we are not alone.
Lost in the Cosmos
How Italo Calvino created a new genre of fiction.
“Away with the Learning of Clerks!”
The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381.
A Christian Buddha
The story of a great story.
No Alexandrian Romance
The Macedonian ascendancy.
The Wuthnow Project
A trilogy on religious and political conservatism in modern America.
Jekyll or Hyde?
Two stories about American evangelicals.
High Priests of Middlebrow Culture
Bestsellers of liberal American religion.
Hellfire and Prophecy
From “Damned Nation” to “American Apocalypse.”
The Novel as Protestant Art
A great metaphysical drama played out on the world’s stage.
“I Felt Like I Was Falling in Love”
A prison chaplain’s journey.
Katherine Paterson’s World
A memoir by the author of ‘Jacob Have I Loved’.
The Other Mrs. Adams
Louisa Catherine, that is.