Monthly Essay Roundups

disenchanted selves + saving graces: August 2024 Essay Recommendations

From adult fairy-stories to the crisis of meaning and the digital devotional life to personal religious freedom, here are this month's recommended…

Aug 30 •

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from Lolita to the Last Supper: July 2024 Essay Recommendations

Growth in functional illiteracy, AI-generated Jesus images, abandoning our smartphones, that Olympics ceremony, and more in this month's recommended…

Jul 31 •

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dinner parties in Narnia, or America, or home: June 2024 Essay Recommendations

Loving our countries correctly, breaking barriers while breaking language, the real threat from AI, and more in this month's recommended longforms

Jul 1 •

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bubbles of illusion in a godless world: May 2024 Essay Recommendations

On the apologetic of grace, smooth culture, religiously-themed retreats, and why we're becoming bad people.

May 31 •

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Jordan's Jesus, Beyoncé's feminism, and important reminders: April 2024 Essay Recommendations

On Christ as Jung's archetypes, faulty women's empowerment narratives, and why Truth and Certainty aren't the same thing

Apr 30 •

Daniel Whyte IV

i raise you (several) bodies: March 2024 Essay Recommendations

What do princesses, pin-ups, politics, and passover have in common? These bodies collide in this month's roundup.

Apr 2 •

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Winnie the Pooh with swords fighting vibes-based Bad Men: February 2024 Essay Recommendations

The dark state of fantasy, the truth about marriage, and why The New York Times is kinda messy right now.

Feb 29 •

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aesthetic friendships and the big war: January 2024 Essay Recommendations

Plus: Why Americans are voting for Dorian Gray and the confounding of the French tongue

Jan 31 •

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the abolition of man is upon us! November 2023 Essay Recommendations

And other less-important things like the profanation of everything, developing prudence, and artificial intelligence (again!)

Dec 4, 2023 •

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Indiana Jones + the translation of the Iliad: October 2023 Essay Recommendations

An unexpected religious adventure, a satanist surprise, and the last invention of humanity... all in a month's reads.

Nov 3, 2023 •

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make death great again: September 2023 Essay Recommendations

We're talking about God to prospective friends and realizing that plot isn't everything in this early Autumn roundup.

Sep 30, 2023 •

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art criticism + 'career Narnia': August 2023 Essay Recommendations

Seismically or slightly, everything's shifting: social media, anti-racism, moral art critiques, and the Christian fiction label... This month's most…

Aug 31, 2023 •

Daniel Whyte IV

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