"Wayfaring Stranger"

Kirk Varnedoe's posthumously published celebration of abstract art should be pondered by Christian culture-critics.

The return of Perry Mason.

How to think about chess.

Confessions of a Democrat-Skeptic.

Is there any hope for a once-great American newspaper?

"When the Lord made me, he made a ramblin' man."

Don't just complain about "the culture"—find the good stuff.

"Infinity always gives me vertigo."

Richard Ford concludes his trilogy about Frank Bascombe, first introduced in The Sportwriter.