Sample Content from Our Latest Issue Table of Contents Sample Article Who Are the Celts? The Celts: A Modern History by Ian Stewart (Princeton University Press) is not, despite what the title might suggest, a history, modern or otherwise, of the Celts. It is instead a history of the idea of “the Celts”, which is indeed [...]
Sample Content from Our Latest Issue Table of Contents Sample Article From Plato's Cave to the Cave of Bethlehem: Wise Men and the Quest for God Around the year 330 B.C., the great Greek philosopher, Plato, gave us the famous allegory of the cave. In this allegory, Plato describes a man who is within a cave, [...]
Sample Content from Our Latest Issue Table of Contents Sample Article "To the Heart of Ecstatic Surrender": Mysticism in St. John of the Cross's "Dark Night of the Soul" Mystical experiences transport the nun, the friar, and even the non-ascetic to an encounter with the divine. St. John of the Cross in his poem, “Dark Night [...]
March-April Issue: Shakespeare Sample Content from Our Latest Issue Table of Contents Sample Article Villiany, Taught and Executed: Reflections on The Merchant of Venice It would be a mistake to think that literature exists only to give us simple morality lessons. It instead exists to display human experience. It manifests before us some human [...]
Sample Content from Our Latest Issue Table of Contents Sample Article The Desert’s Ancient Peace: Christendom from Homer to Eliot If there were water And no rock If there were rock And also water And water A spring A pool among the rock If there were the sound of water only Not the cicada And dry [...]
Sample Content from Our Latest Issue Table of Contents Sample Article St. Teresa of Avila’s autobiography, The Life of Teresa of Jesus, completed in 1565, in addition to chronicling her own spiritual awakening, is a call to the reader to pursue a more virtuous life. The Carmelite nun’s memoir, much like St. Augustine’s Confessions, succeeds in [...]
Sample Content from Our Latest Issue Table of Contents Sample Article The firm line drawn between books for children and books for grown-ups is not so old as we might suppose. While we take for granted a certain taxonomy of reading that divides works into categories premised on the idea of a book being appropriate to [...]
Sample Content from Our Latest Issue Table of Contents Sample Article Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown: FROM LOGIC TO METAPHYSICS T. S. Eliot and detective stories In addition to the authors of undeniable quality that readers of detective novels can enjoy, the genre’s library also contains literary critics of great stature, including, perhaps surprisingly to [...]
Sample Content from Our Latest Issue Table of Contents Sample Article Novel Illustration: An Educational Approach to Jane Eyre “Where did you get your copies?” “Out of my head.” “That head I see now on your shoulders?” “Yes, sir.” “Has it other furniture of the same kind within?” “I should think it may have: I should [...]
Literature in the Twentieth Century Sample Content from Our Latest Issue Table of Contents Sample Article Catholic Realism and Fantasy in the Twentieth Century Are realism and fantasy really (or only “fancifully”) opposed to one another, as modern academia—even, and perhaps especially, Catholic academia—seem so often to propose? I have wondered about this question for practically my [...]