The Lamp
The Lamp, Freddie deBoer, Emmett Rensin, Nic Rowan, Ivana Greco, BDM, Matthew Walther, Robert WyllieThe free newsletter of The Lamp, a print Catholic journal of literature, science, the fine arts, etc.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 14 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 11 days ago |
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So Light and Gold
Long ago, in the olden days when people watched movies on V.H.S. tapes and traveled in stegosaurus-drawn wagons, and I was a child, one of my favorite tapes came with a preview for a movie I didn’t own and had never seen. I must have regard...
Revised by Evidence
Pride is supposed to be the worst of them, you know. In the classical ordering of the seven deadly sins, pride occupies the top spot, not merely one of the gang but the ringleader, the sin from which all others flow. Saint Thomas Aquinas th...
The Seven Deadly Sins
“‘Why not the Seven Deadly Sins?’”
It would be an exaggeration to say that the suggestion made by Nick Jenkins in Anthony Powell’s novel cycle A Dance to the Music of Time captures the spirit of this issue, but not a very gross one. In the...
Over the Borderline
Writers have bad readers; in private life, these critics are called psychiatrists. The catastrophe suffered by the lunatic is unlike that visited on any other patient. While the cardiologist, the oncologist, the gastroenterologist may be im...
The Lamp Christmas Ghost Story Contest
For the sixth year in a row, The Lamp is sponsoring a Christmas ghost story competition in the spirit of Dickens and M. R. James. When we say “in the spirit of,” we do not have in mind wan pseudo-Edwardian pastiches of James and others; we...
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A Catholic journal of literature, science, the fine arts, etc.
shootin down the walls of heartache
intrasubjective hallucination in the latent west; "The Complications" (2024), essays elsewhere
Managing editor, The Lamp.
Attorney and homeschooling mom of four. Writing about women, children, families, and family policy.
Essayist + critic. I am also writing a book about science fiction. 🪐 The dog's name is Boswell.
Matthew Walther is editor of The Lamp magazine.
Associate Professor of Political Science & Director of the Political Economy Program at Ashland University & the Ashbrook Center. Contributing editor at The Lamp.
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