Last month, we posted some unpleasant thoughts about EW's Top 100 Reads of the last 25 years, and complained that there were too many co...

There's an interesting conversation at InsideCatholic.com about Ron Hansen's new novel, Exiles . We're not done with the novel...

The New York Times has more on the new film version of Brideshead Revisited . As Ross Douthat observes , the directors claim to have made ...

The Library of Congress has announced that Kay Ryan will become the new Poet Laureate this October. Here's a New York Times profile o...

J. Bottum has a moving tribute to Thomas Disch, who committed suicide earlier this month. Here's perhaps his best-known poem, which Da...

This weekend’s Wall Street Journal features an article by Billy Collins , the most popular poet in America and former Poet Laureate. Collin...

InsideCatholic has a profile about Dr. Baer . The piece covers Baer's nurturing of a Catholic literary scene, as well as his important...

Entertainment Weekly has a list of the 100 best books of the past 25 years . Ross Douthat vents here . Like him, we're not happy that...

We’ve been enjoying Housekeeping vs. The Dirt , a collection of critical essays that Nick Hornby wrote for The Believer . In these essays, ...

Readers of this site know that one of its main purposes is to explore ways to integrate faith and art. We therefore rarely delve into polit...

This weekend, the third annual Southwell Institute Writers Conference will convene in Mahwah. The focus of this year's conference will ...

Psalm 19 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. 1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork. 2 Da...

Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is the most disturbing work of literature I know of; reading it is a genu...

We’re crying over this adaptation: Ross Douthat says that the apparently over-sexed adaption of Brideshead Revisited may be just what the n...

Much futile ink has been spent dissecting the so-called "new atheist" movement, which in fact has nothing new in it besides an unp...

A friend sent us the following footage of an unusual liturgical celebration. We were particularly fascinated by the large puppets that ente...

In his essay "The Study of Poetry," Matthew Arnold employs a now famous method of delineating poetic excellence. He claims that we...

By Marion Shore, from (where else?) Measure : “Lost in Cyberspace” Confession: here’s the latest of my vices, small but time-consuming all t...

The current issue of Measure opens with several poems by Mary Jo Salter, followed by an enlightening (and, as always , inspiring) interview...

There’s an interesting discussion going on over at InsideCatholic.com about the future of Catholic fiction . Todd M. Aglialoro observes: Th...