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Issue 23

Trinity 2024

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About This Issue

On a problem of perception.

Correspondence

Notes and comment from readers.

Feuilleton

Odds and ends from staff and contributors.

Departments

Brass Rubbings

By the Tombs of Peter and Paul

Samantha Kelly

On Ethiopian pilgrims in Rome.

The Jungle

The Adjustment Bureau

Jude Russo

On how medical billing works.

Historia Ecclesiastica

Perpetual Felicity

Urban Hannon

On Saint Perpetua.

Apologia

Hunger

Will Thibeau

On Army Ranger school.

Features

Honest Dishonesty

Stanley Fish

On liberalism and 12 Angry Men.

The Two Natures of King Lear

Edmund Waldstein

On two views of providence and nature.

Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others

Hannah Rowan

On the fat industrial complex.

Arts and Letters

Sharing the Soul

Jaspreet Singh Boparai

The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, Gustave Flaubert, ed., trans. Francis Steegmuller, New York Review Books, pp. 720, $24.95

Sentimental Education: The Story of a Young Man, Gustave Flaubert, trans. Raymond N. MacKenzie, University of Minnesota Press, pp. 480, $19.95

Not Entirely Peaceful

Theodore Dalrymple

The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748–1789, Robert Darnton, W.W. Norton, pp. 576, $45.00

At Sea

Joseph Bottum

Tales of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgerald, ed. Anne Margaret Daniel, Oxford World’s Classics, pp. 304, $11.95

What Happened to the Dinosaur?

Nic Rowan

The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs, Gregory S. Paul, Princeton University Press, pp. 384, $39.95

Bagatelle

The Club Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Thomas Colbyry

On a face to meet the faces.

Appreciations

Helen Vendler

Jane Cooper

On the American literary critic.

Nunc Dimittis

Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam

Bill McCormick

On the Jesuit Constitutions.