Let Us Rejoice While We Are Young
Maria Rybakova reviews Mircea Eliade's early novel "Gaudeamus," recently translated by Christopher Bartholomew and released by Istros Books....
A Public Voice for Private Grief
A global survey of official inquiries into the phenomenon of sexual abuse....
The Queerness of It All: An Interview with Jeffrey Kripal
"Are you suggesting that Jesus was gay?" "That’s an anachronistic question. The safest thing to say is that he was anything but straight."...
The Final “Final Foucault”?
Joseph Tanke reviews “Confessions of the Flesh” by Michel Foucault, unearthing the famous thinker’s later ideas....
Speaking of Silence
Does Alain Corbin's "A History of Silence" help us, as the author hopes, relearn how to be silent?...
Zen and the Art of a Higher Education
What value does "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" have today?...
Exercises in Self-Destruction: On Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed”
"First Reformed" is a serious exercise in thinking through faith and despair, but at the same time it indulges unabashedly in oneiric pleasures....
Groping Towards Each Other in a Common Mist
In his new translation, David Bentley Hart presents the New Testament as a choir, rather than the work of a soloist....
A Force That Matters?
How did the 19th-century Catholic Church, in all its anti-modern grandeur and opulence, beget the 21st-century Church we see today?...
Rock of Ages
Frank Johnson finds solace in Christina Zanfagna's "Holy Hip Hop in the City of Angels."...
Martyr at the Picnic Table
This piece appears in the LARB Print Quarterly Journal: No. 18, Genius To receive the LARB Quarterly Journal, become a member or donate here. ¤ In the Basilica di Santa Margherita, which overlooks the expansive Val di Chiana ...
Religion Goes to the Movies
"Religion and Film" makes the otherwise confusing relationship between religion and film perspicuous in ways that few academic studies have ....
