Christopher S. Carson

Articles

The Sinister Theology of the Homesman (or, the American West Without a Gospel)

(June 2026)

The Horns of Elfland Faintly Blowing

(June 2026)

Strange Mercies: Graham Greene, Flannery O’Connor, and the Legibility of Grace

(June 2026)

The Regal Anxieties of Anthony Van Dyck

(May 2026)

Illusion-dwellers from Talos IV to Shakespeare

(May 2026)

Flypaper Hearts: Attachment, Grief, and the Limits of Autonomy

(May 2026)

Catastrophic Daughters

(April 2026)

Social Death in English Renaissance Drama

(April 2026)

Against Heteronormativity: The Epistemological Case for a Classical Anthropology of Sex and Gender

(April 2026)

Ghostlier Demarcations: Strand and Stevens at the World-Edge of Discovery

(March 2026)

The Still Point of the Turning World

(March 2026)

Nature to Advantage Dressed

(March 2026)

La Danse Doree’: Bruegel’s Village Dance, Michael Praetorius, and Europe’s Last Coherent Calendar

(February 2026)

That Dolphin-torn, that Gong-tormented Venice

(February 2026)

The Virgin’s Winter Guest: The Catastrophic Grace of Renaissance Devotional Music

(February 2026)

The Holy Road To Market

(January 2026)

The Blood on the Snow: Duels, Masquerades, and the Solitude of Misbegotten Passion

(January 2026)

On Grace in Given Light

(December 2025)

What Quintessence of Dust? American Masculinity from the Frontier to Conscience

(December 2025)

The Still Point of the Baroque Musical World was the Eucharist

(November 2025)

The Tyranny of the Generic: Against Semantic Flattening in Biblical Studies

(November 2025)

The Razor and the Rose: Ockham, Nominalism, and the Long Decoherence of the Medievals’ Eucharistic World

(October 2025)

Anthropology’s Haunted Mirror: Western Fantasy and Native Resilience

(October 2025)

Saddest Devotion: Sir Anthony Hopkins and Romantic love in Middle Age

(September 2025)

Three Ulysses: Curiosity, Grace, and Defiance

(September 2025)

There Is an Island in the Dark: Shakespeare’s Tempest, Contemporary AI, and Our Future

(August 2025)

The Last Knight and the Dying Fall: Cultural Regression in British Documentary Television

(August 2025)

That Strain Again, It Had a Dying Fall: An Elegy in Four Movements for the English Soul

(July 2025)

The Anamnesis of Literary Memory

(July 2025)

The Cunning Passageways of TWA Flight 800: An Unauthorized History

(July 2010)

The Worst of Intentions

(March 2010)