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Home: Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Lies, Damned Lies and Dan Brown: Fact-checking Angels & Demons - Steven D. GreydanusIn a Q&A billed as an “interview” on his own website, Brown writes “My goal is always to make the character’s [sic] and plot be so engaging that readers don’t realize how much they are learning along the way.” Or how much misinformation they’re absorbing. Read more... Life lessons from a turtle - Robert FulfordWhat Aesop’s fables teach us about ourselves. Read more... Literature as Preparation for Death - JOHN O'CALLAGHANAs a writer of novels and occasional essays, Walker Percy is fascinated by our pilgrimage unto death. For autobiographical reasons, it is perhaps the most pervasive theme among the many in his writing. Read more... Long Live Haydn - Robert R. ReillyMay 31 was the 200th anniversary of Franz Joseph Haydn's death in 1809 at the age of 77. Read more... Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring - Steven D. GreydanusThere can be no more fitting tribute to Peter Jackson's The Fellowship of the Ring than to apply to it the words with which C. S. Lewis acclaimed the original book when Tolkien first wrote it: “Here are beauties that pierce like swords or burn like cold iron; here is a [film] that will break your heart.” Read more... Making Something Beautiful - Our Faith in ActionThe movie Bella is something beautiful that was born from pain. Read more... Mary Magdalene - Dan DoyleMaster and Commander: The Far Side of the World - Steven D. GreydanusLike a cannon blast across the bows, Peter Weir’s Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a thunderous, almost defiant declaration heralding the arrival of a force to be reckoned with. Read more... Maurice Baring: Faith and Culture - Joseph PearceWhen Sir James Gunn exhibited his famous painting, “The Conversation Piece,” depicting G.K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, and Maurice Baring assembled round a table, Chesterton, with characteristic humor, labeled the three figures, “Baring, over-bearing, and past-bearing.” Read more... Mendelssohn: Great-Or Also Ran? - ROBERT R. REILLYPoor Mendelssohn was rich. Had he only suffered more, he might have been a profound composer. Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 20-Nov-2009 - 09:48:49
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