Articles in this Issue
Florilegium
Three poets.
Thanks for the Thanks
In praise of gratitude.
C. S. Lewis as Translator
Mistaking inspirations for their Source.
“Great Jars of China”
18th-century Britain’s passion for porcelain.
“Creative Literalism”
The Mormon imagination.
True or Merely Useful?
All religions don’t lead in the same direction.
Recommended Reading
Down syndrome a generation ago.
Marking Twain
An autobiography that could never be finished.
Carnie Realism
The much-heralded first novel by Karen Russell.
Pulp Fictions
Jim Thompson and the sins of the father.
The Brush of a Wing
An eco-fantasy set in the Pacific Northwest.
Christ in the City
Glimpses of inner-city churches.
Honey in the Lion’s Mouth
African Christians in New York City.
Out of Egypt
Flaubert and Flo.
Daughter of Joy
The life and art of Edith Piaf.
From Mamaroneck to Pakistan
The strange tale of a Jewish convert to Islam.
Making Peace at the Dinner Table
Food politics: point and counterpoint.
Overloaded
The premodern flood of scholarly information.
Cesar Chavez and “La Causa”
The leader of the Latino civil rights movement.
Practical Theology
The usable legacy of the Clapton Sect.
George Bailey’s Wonderful Universes
Is truth this much stranger than fiction?
Hints of Providence
A conversation with Carlos Eire.
Getting In
Andrew Ferguson’s quest to get his son into a good college.