Pietà Patrick Madden * There's a scene near the end of the last episode of Midnight Mass that, the first time I saw it, evoked from m...

* This is part of our yearly Advent Calendar, which publishes an essay a day each year during advent.  Find the rest of this year's an...

I have just finished reading Eduardo Galeano's last book, Hunter of Stories , in English translation, against Karina's advice, and...

f-Words: An Attempt at an Essay on Style (feat. Brian Doyle) Patrick Madden   Years ago, when he was visiting BYU, Brian Doyle offered ...

after Louise Imogen Guiney's "On a Pleasing Encounter with a Pickpocket" "It struck me that the sweet symmetry of the...

One of writing’s axioms is that the large can be found in the small, the universal in the particular. I have seen this idea expressed a mill...

I wanted to find one of Brian Doyle’s old emails whose subject line, I knew, was “heh heh heh heh.” Gmail turned up ten qualifying messages,...

What follows is a conversation between Jenny Spinner and Patrick Madden, who, like many people (especially around these parts) share an inte...