In some sense, writing is guesswork. You put words on a page and hope people like them — generally, some…

When I was a boy riding the bus to our diocesan high school, an older kid sometimes sat in the…

How far Lord Minamoto no Muneyuki had fallen. His grandfather was the former Emperor Kōkō, and his father the Imperial…

     In my last article, I described what I called ignorance to the third degree: ignorance that is proud of itself,…

On August 12, 2022, a 24-year-old California-born Islamist named Hadi Matar rushed the stage of the Chautauqua Institution in upstate…

When Philip Roth died in 2018 at age 85, all eyes turned to Blake Bailey, his appointed biographer who’d been…

Hunter S. Thompson was necessary for the rest of us to be able to do whatever we want in our…

A Catholic and a Protestant walk into a podcast booth. On a blustery Midwestern day, hosts Aubrey Gulick and Luther…

When most college graduates toss their caps, they have no idea what they want to do with their life. That…

Confession: I’m a bookaholic. And I’ve been one all my life. Once, as a toddler, I was taken to visit…