“The Problem of Evil’s doing well these days: / Five international meetings in one year! / I’ll skip that one in India next Spring, // Calcutta’s too depressing”

Gary Gutting responds to Paul Griffith’s review, a reader makes a correction, and more

A comic tale of two men—Bob Dylan and Thomas Merton—seeking a way through the age’s “baroque obscenities”

Christ chose what was common and contemptible in this world to reduce to nothing all that seems so important to us