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Issue 17

Trinity 2023

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The Publisher's desk

On dreams.

Feuilleton

Odds and ends from the staff of The Lamp.

Departments

Brass Rubbings

Stand Guard

Dominic Lynch

On Saint Boniface in Chicago.

The Jungle

Given Over to Dreaming

Nic Rowan

On Pope Francis's general audiences.

Historia Ecclesiastica

Aeneas the Poet

Minoo Dinshaw

On Pope Pius II.

Apologia

Apocrypha Now

J. C. Miller

On The Da Vinci Code.

Features

Shadow on the Sun

Sam Kriss

On a tour through The Villages.

The Crisis of Catholic Atheism

Michael Hanby

On the triumph of anonymous atheism.

Death of a Dialect

Samuel Sweeney

On the loss of Baghdad's linguistic diversity.

The Consolation of Martin Luther

Edmund Waldstein

On Luther's merits.

Arts and Letters

Stand and Stare

Jaspreet Singh Boparai

After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art

The National Gallery
March 25–August 13, 2023

Cezanne

Tate Modern
October 5, 2022–March 12, 2023

Unreal Newman

Edward Short

Thinking as Though God Exists: Newman on Evangelizing the “Nones”

Ryan N. S. Topping
Angelico Press, pp. 186, $26.00

A Better Outdoors Indoors

Eve Tushnet

Meet Me at the Fountain: an Inside History of the Mall

Alexandra Lange
Bloomsbury, pp. 320, $19.60

Plow the Sea

Lars Erik Schönander

Things Are Never So Bad That They Can’t Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela

William Neuman
St. Martin’s Press, pp. 352, $26.99

Verse

From The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk

James Matthew Wilson

On an old story.

Appreciations

P. G. Wodehouse

Vikram Doraiswami

On Wodehouse's enduring popularity in India.

Nunc Dimittis

The Bins

Mattie Vennerstrom

On dumpster diving.