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Issue 18

Assumption 2023

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The Publisher's desk

On death.

Feuilleton

Odds and ends from the staff of The Lamp.

Departments

Brass Rubbings

No Longer Foreigners

Rafael Alvarez

On the Church in Japan.

The Jungle

This Side Idolatry

Nic Rowan

On a reading of Ulysses.

Historia Ecclesiastica

Learning to Listen

Peter Brown

On writing a biography of Saint Augustine.

Apologia

Roadside Attraction

Ian Bothur

On Christian billboards.

Features

Is Traditionis Custodes Lawful?

Thomas Pink

On the teaching force of papal legislation.

P. S. 51 to the End

Paul Hundt

On loneliness.

Burnt Orange Lounge Suit

Timothy Nerozzi

On clothing.

Cormac McCarthy, 1933–2023

Robert Wyllie, Steve Knepper, et al.

On the American novelist.

Arts and Letters

A Huge Laugh

Joseph Epstein

Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew

Jeremy Dauber

Yale University Press, pp. 216, $26.00

Not There to Shield You

Jane Stannus

Macbeth

Giuseppe Verdi

Canadian Opera Company

April 28–May 20, 2023

No Hands

Jaspreet Singh Boparai

On the Marble Cliffs

Ernst Jünger
trans. Tess Lewis, New York Review Books, pp. 144, $14.95

Approaches: Drugs and Altered States

Ernst Jünger
trans. Thomas Friese, ed. Russell A. Berman, Telos, pp. 406, $29.95

Solemn and Long

Matthew Walther

Vatican II: A Very Short Introduction

Shaun Blanchard and Stephen Bullivant
Oxford University Press, pp. 176, $11.95

Bagatelle

J. G. Frazer considers Thin Lizzy

Steve Larkin

On the origins of a song.

Appreciations

Orlando di Lasso

Aaron James

On the composer.

Nunc Dimittis

Narfie Noodle

Mark Naida

On nicknames.