The New York Review of Books

Indecorous Decorations
Review of an exhibition at the Met Cloisters about sex and desire in the Middle Ages

New Money
On the early modern middle class

One Cubit at a Time
Review of a book about architecture and theology in the twelfth-century

Apollo

I’ve written about Frederic Church’s estate, Olana, in Upstate New York, the landscapes of Egon Schiele, and German Romantic Caspar David Friedrich.

Commonweal

Patron of Strivers
On Saint Godric, the merchant who became a saint

Pressure at the Seam
On novels of priests in crisis

The Paris Review

How Not to Be Forgotten

Iris Origo’s Wartime Diaries
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Interviews

I was interviewed about art & mysticism here.

My conversations with writers and artists for The Paris Review are here; for The New York Review, here.