Posting will be even more sparse than usual for the rest of the month and probably into early August. We're moving and we're traveli...

We haven’t been posting lately because sinister forces , scandalized by The Crytogram of Caravaggio , have silenced us. But we have escaped ...

Since Wednesday's post , we've heard from many readers who've been eager and anxious to view the manuscript fragment retrieved b...

Several years ago, The Da Vinci Code radically altered the way we think about the Catholic Church and how we use the English language (...

Earlier this month I complained about Christopher Hitchens, particularly how his anti-religious bigotry affects his abilities as a book cri...

At long last, here is Mark's thoughtful response to my post from last week . We thought enough of it to integrate a new "Read More...

The technical difficulty appears to have been solved... ...by Hansonius.

We're having some problems today, which is why the site looks a little funky. I'll be posting Mark's response to my post as soo...

Thanks to Mark for a very thought-provoking post . Thanks also to the mysterious F.P. Seamus for his response, though I should warn him th...

Our friend and fellow Mahwahvian Mark S. has contributed a thought-provoking guest post about the formal and aesthetic implications of our f...

Today the Church in America celebrates the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, so it seems appropriate to offer some more ...

Today is the Feast of Corpus Christi, though we don’t celebrate it in America until this coming Sunday. The solemnity makes me think of a ...

The second annual St. Robert Southwell Literary Workshop has been going on this week in the scenic and musically-named hamlet of Mahwah , ...

This week's New York Times Book Review includes a review of Fathers and Sons: An Autobiography of a Family by Alexander Waugh, the gr...

John Derbyshire also wrote a thoughtful essay about Powers's work in 1999. (The archived link doesn't load, so I'm sending you ...

Most discussions of great Catholic fiction writers of the 20 th century revolve around Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, Graham Greene, Evely...

This contribution comes from fellow Mahwahvian Mark S. It's a good one: In an article recently published in Slate , former Poet Lau...

As the second annual St. Robert Southwell Literary Workshop approaches, here’s a tip for the new class on how to avoid Baer attacks . No...

Earlier in the week, we posted remarks by Archbishop Chaput about the threats that science and technology pose to our spiritual lives. Hele...

I'll just let Helen C. White speak for herself when she discusses “the value of a knowledge of literary tradition for the poet. ” Trad...