No place in this country has ever fitted itself more perfectly to the geography of my imagination than Kentucky. Here, wind-in-the-willows nights radiate mind and body with an overwhelming sense of homesickness, with the realization that nearness to home is always accompanied by memories lost. It is hard to spell out in words the marriage […]
Kierkegaard in L.A.: Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups
Knight of Cups is a quest for faith in a distinctly Kierkegaardian key.
La Meditazione, by Francesco Hayez is a metaphysical romance, a meditation on Existence Itself.
C.K. Scott Moncrieff was what all good men should be: a contradiction; and he sought what all good men should seek: divine grace.
D.H. Lawrence and Discontent with the Modern World
Lawrence is the perfect picture of a man caught between two rival experiences of consciousness and the world it perceives.
The Knights of Terrence Malick
“With the help of their wings they could fly away to distant regions, blessed regions, where they really had their homes, for here they were but alien sojourners.”—Soren Kierkegaard
Trevor Logan in conversation with Michael Robbins
David Foster Wallace: In His Own Words
on the new audiobook from Little, Brown Publishers
Roberto Bolaño: Never Kill a Child
A review of Monica Maristain’s new book Bolaño: A Biography in Conversations, an interweaving of biographical narrative and interviews conducted with Bolaño, a man of contradictions, both farouche and loving.
David Bentley Hart’s The Experience of God
Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of reason, every act of consciousness, every encounter with the world around us.
On Oliver Ready’s Translation of Crime and Punishment
The film is remarkably unbiblical. And hence remarkably biblical. For if there is one thing the bible is not, it is biblical, at least in the senses we tend to force upon it …
Lawrence Krauss, Our Hollywood Hulga
“… he reminds me of my erstwhile thirteen year-old self thundering through our trailer park home with all the delicacy of a rhino … screaming banshee style ‘IT’S NOT FAIR!'”
This is why, and how, I became a philosopher: a cosmic wink, simultaneously cruel and kind.
To what extent does ugly architecture actually impede moral reasoning, and in particular, erotic and sensual reasoning?
A poem by Trevor Logan
A Review of Christian Wiman's "My Bright Abyss"
Grace is everywhere
DBH's "The Devil and Pierre Gernet": A Pendulation of Spirit
Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment: read David Bentley Hart’s The Devil and Pierre Gernet: Stories, if for no other reason than that it’s a caravan supplied with a metaphysical professor.
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