T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922) is rich in Arthurian imagery as it explores the dimensions of spiritual exhaustion in which Eliot’s generation found itself in the wake of “The […]
Spenser’s The Faerie Queene tells a tale on many levels, including an ode to Queen Elizabeth (after whom the poem is titled) and an allegorical critique of the Roman Catholic […]
The accounts of King Arthur, as recorded by Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace and Layamon, and the tale of Sir Gawain, as told in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, exhibit […]
When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.[1] – Sherlock Holmes, “The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier” The art of […]
Here, all we get are a few specks of time where any of this actually makes sense, then I will cherish these few specks of time. — Evelyn Wang, […]
When you’re dead, you’re dead, and until then . . . there’s ice cream. — Patrick Jane, The Mentalist Joy was not a deception. Its visitations were rather the moments […]
Stories of heroic saints and inspiring sanctuaries abound in the history of the church of Jesus Christ. It is easy and natural to think of the early church in the […]
“The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil”[1] -Gerard Manley Hopkins, God’s Grandeur Holly Ordway shows her commitment to […]
I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the […]
Of all the stories I have read, including even all the novels of this same novelist, [The Princess and the Goblin] remains the most real, the most realistic . . […]
