Our Literary Drought
Novelists, poets, and critics seek a higher truth, but today’s pickings are slim.
Magazine: Art
Hamlet and Oedipus Meet the Zombies
Insistence on art as indoctrination is obscenity, denying the possibility of human connection to truths superior to human understanding, that is, to God.
The Death of Public Beauty
How city planning went wrong.
It Ain’t a Word!
So if you’ve been saying that certain terms are “not words,” please cease and desist forthwith. What you can say is that it’s a nonword.
By Any Other Name
The tale of a downwardly mobile portrait.
The Peanuts Papers: An Appreciation of the World Charles Schulz Created
A review of The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life, edited by Andrew Blauner.
Yale Teaches World Art
A good survey course should look at beauty in the West and beyond.
Andy Warhola’s Religion
An exhibition at the Warhol Museum explores the artist’s Byzantine-Catholic side.
Sparks of Genius
Brian T. Allen reviews The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century, by Mark Lamster.
Committee Art
Brian T. Allen reviews Art from the Swamp: How Washington Bureaucrats Squander Millions on Awful Art, by Bruce Cole.