Archive - Beatific Revisions

This Sickness is Not Unto Death

In a culture of narcissism that has shed the old man of sacramental Confessionals for the therapeutic circles of self-help, the form of memoir…

May 21 • Beatific Revisions

Trying to Render Justice to Reality

More than a Matter of Taste makes its way into the world . . .

May 11 • Beatific Revisions

Truth and Falsity in the House of Fiction

An Excerpt from More than a Matter of Taste: The Moral Imagination & the Spirit of Literature

May 1 • Beatific Revisions

April 2026

Finnegans Wake and the Foenix Culprit

Here Comes Everybody's Original Sin

Apr 9 • Beatific Revisions

Beauty Will Not Save the World

*Typically I would not trouble you at such an hour, but the following has bearing on the strange truths made manifest during this set-apart Time.

Apr 3 • Beatific Revisions

Faith in the Furnace of Doubt in Your Hands

Dana Gioia's Visionary Poetics Makes its Way into the World . . .

Apr 1 • Beatific Revisions

February 2026

More than a Matter of Taste: The Moral Imagination and the Spirit of Literature

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Feb 23 • Beatific Revisions

How to Shoulder What Remains

the afterlife of Aeneas in contemporary poetry

Feb 19 • Beatific Revisions

January 2026

A Cartography of Redemption

On Heimito von Doderer’s “The Strudlhof Steps”

Jan 29 • Beatific Revisions

Kitsch and the Common Good

*“Kitsch and the Common Good” draws heavily on Hermann Broch, who featured largely in this recent post. Although the essay is not included in More than…

Jan 15 • Beatific Revisions

Jan 10 • Beatific Revisions

The Death of Constantine

. . . ars longa, vita brevis . . .

Jan 2 • Beatific Revisions