Publisher's Desk
On names.
Correspondence
On Philip Larkin, America's beauty, and modern people.
Feuilleton
This issue's miscellany.
Departments
Brass Rubbings
October Turkey
On Saint Mary’s church in Fredericksburg, Texas.
The Jungle
Kennedy Bugged Piccolo
On a Washington, D.C. memorabilia shop.
Historia Ecclesiastica
Eight Bols of Malt
On Scotch whisky.
Apologia
Sunday School for Donkeys
On stubbornness.
Features
The Medical Religion
On the reigning system of belief in the modern West.
Abortion is Already Illegal
On the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Nature is Healing
On living through screens.
A Taste of Honey
On honey in the Bible.
On Envy
Envy is the seed of doubt planted in our admiration.
Arts and Letters
Ne Dimittas Legem Matris Tuae
Benedict XVI: A Life Volume One: Youth in Nazi Germany to the Second Vatican Council 1927–1965, by Peter Seewald
Nobility in Exile
St. Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence, by Joseph de Maistre, edited and translated by Richard A. Lebrun
Except as Smut
Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews, And Letters, by Vladimir Nabokov; Vladimir Nabokov In Context, by Various (edited by David M. Bethea and Siggy Frank); Nabokov And The Real World: Between Appreciation And Defense, by Robert Alter
Lucid Dreaming
When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep, by Antonio Zadra and Robert Stickgold; The Book Of Sleep, by Haytham El Wadany (translated by Robin Moger); The Chinese Dreamscape: 300BCE – 800CE, by Robert Ford Company; Sleep In Early Modern England, by Sasha Handley
Executions, Formally Conducted
The Lost Worlds of John Ford: Beyond the Western, by Jeffrey Richards
Appreciations
Josquin des Prez
On a high Renaissance composer.
Nunc Dimittis
Spinet Piano
On watching baseball.
