For the child — and the adult who knows there is still a child in all of us — fairy tales reveal truths about ourselves and the world.

This is the final article in a series of three.

This is the second article in a series of three.

In this witty, elegant, revelatory biography, Richard Greene states that his "book takes a very high view of Graham Greene's accomplishments and so endorses the common opinion of three generations of writers and critics that he is one of the most important figures in modern literature." 

This is the first of three postings on beauty as a principle of choice.

They say that Michelangelo saw the figures he sculpted within the rough blocks of marble.

Among other things, this deployment of the critical spirit acts as a bastion against the engulfing rust of presentism.

This fresco of Saint Thomas Aquinas by Fra Angelico can found at the Vatican in the Chapel of Pope Nicholas V.

"Old Woman with a Rosary" by Paul Cézanne was donated by the artist to the poet Joachim Gasquet,

During a lifespan that crossed from the 4th to early 5th century, Saint Jerome was a priest, a monk, a pope's secretary, a desert hermit, and head of a monastery in Bethlehem.