Articles in this Issue
Terrible Simplifiers
Failing to account for the agency of the marginalized.
A Century Past “The Soldier”
Rupert Brooke and the chain of memory.
“Everybody Worships”
On David Foster Wallace.
The Shivers
A well-chosen selection of classic horror stories.
Who’s Afraid of Shirley Jackson?
Glimpses of something sinister, overwhelming—and often quite funny.
Living as a Beast
James Hogg’s enigmatic masterpiece.
Coleridge and the Maker
Revisiting the “Biographia Literaria.”
How the British Empire Got Its Spots
A tale of ten cities.
The Road to Rome
Starring Bob Hope.
“Something Beautiful for Japan”
The moral imagination of Hayao Miyazaki.
Achievement Slaves
The pathologies of élite education.
Whose Status Quo?
Teachers, the public, and educational reform.
Believing to Understand
Richard Hays on figural Christology.
Inequality and the American Family
How growing income gaps shape relationships.
Family History, Revisited
In early America, stepfamilies were everywhere.
The Foreign Mission School
“A seminary for the education of heathen youth.”
C. Kuipers, Mission Novelist
Bringing Christ to the Zuni—and to churchgoers back home.
Missing the Point
On Augustine and the peculiarities of academic publishing.
“Endlessly Overflowing”
An invitation to sacramental wonder.