Further Notes on the Martyrs
By Poetry Issue 82
Our speaker has a tongue screw with him, though it is a replica. He speaks of spectacle, witness, dying well. One group’s criminals…. Stories are not preserved by accident. Heroes are made necessary by the nature of memory. Life is stronger than death, and that is why we must praise. I think. Identity depends on…
Read MoreSelf-Portrait with Preacher, Pain, and Snow
By Poetry Issue 81
[John] Wheeler’s delayed-choice experiment is a variation on the classic (but not classical) two-slit experiment, which demonstrates the schizophrenic nature of quantum phenomena…. In the delayed-choice experiment, the experimenter decides whether to leave both slits open or to close one off after the electrons have already passed through the barrier—with the same results. The electrons…
Read MoreMaking It New
By Essay Issue 81
There is nothing new under the sun. —Ecclesiastes 1:9 Behold, I make all things new. —Revelation 21:5 TO CELEBRATE OUR twenty-fifth anniversary this year we chose the theme “Making It New.” It seemed a simple enough decision. This journal exists to publish art and literature that engage the western faith traditions in…
Read MoreThe Reclusive Novel: Community, Tradition, and Loneliness
By Book Review Issue 83
Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014) Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? by Dave Eggers (Knopf, 2014) High as the Horses’ Bridles by Scott Cheshire (Henry Holt and Co, 2014) THE WORLD HAS TURNED SMALL in our hands.…
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