The Publisher's Desk
The Publisher's Desk
On names.
Issue 06
Corpus Christi 2021
Departments
Brass Rubbings
October Turkey
Jake Neu
On Saint Mary’s church in Fredericksburg, Texas.
The Jungle
Kennedy Bugged Piccolo
Nic Rowan
On a Washington, D.C. memorabilia shop.
Historia Ecclesiastica
Eight Bols of Malt
Jamie McGowan
On Scotch whisky.
Apologia
Sunday School for Donkeys
Adriana Watkins
On stubbornness.
Features
Features
The Medical Religion
Giorgio Agamben
On the reigning system of belief in the modern West.
Features
Abortion is Already Illegal
Josh Craddock
On the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Features
Nature is Healing
Sam Kriss
On living through screens.
Features
A Taste of Honey
Andrew Kuiper
On honey in the Bible.
Features
On Envy
Robert Wyllie
Envy is the seed of doubt planted in our admiration.
Arts and Letters
Arts and Letters
Ne Dimittas Legem Matris Tuae
Edmund Waldstein
Benedict XVI: A Life Volume One: Youth in Nazi Germany to the Second Vatican Council 1927–1965
Peter Seewald
Bloomsbury, pp.512, $35.00
Arts and Letters
Nobility in Exile
Jaspreet Singh Boparai
St. Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence, by Joseph de Maistre, edited and translated by Richard A. Lebrun
Arts and Letters
Except as Smut
Matthew Walther
Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews, and Letters, Vladimir Nabokov, Vintage, pp. 527, $18.00
Vladimir Nabokov in Context, ed. by David M. Bethea and Siggy Frank, Cambridge, pp. 327, $26.00
Nabokov and the Real World: Between Appreciation and Defense, Robert Alter, Princeton, pp. 232, $19.95
Arts and Letters
Lucid Dreaming
John Wilson
When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep, by Antonio Zadra and Robert Stickgold; The Book Of Sleep, by Haytham El Wadany (translated by Robin Moger); The Chinese Dreamscape: 300BCE – 800CE, by Robert Ford Company; Sleep In Early Modern England, by Sasha Handley
Arts and Letters
Executions, Formally Conducted
Peter Tonguette
The Lost Worlds of John Ford: Beyond the Western, by Jeffrey Richards
