The Lamp Magazine

Issue 30: Assumption 2025

Our Assumption 2025 issue features Peter Hitchens on the atom bomb, Jude Russo on the United Nations, Gregory Caridi on the future of the trad movement, Peter Howarth on Richard Ellmann’s biography of James Joyce, David Bentley Hart on Goethe, as well as contributions from Susan Richbourg Parker, B. D. McClay, Augustin Laffay and Gianni Festa, Peter George Flynn, Minoo Dinshaw, Joseph Epstein, Terry Eagleton, and James McManus.

Articles

Modernism’s Secret Agent by Terry Eagleton On Joseph Conrad’s view of history.
Now—The Peace by Jude Russo On the creation of the United Nations.

Blog Post

The Lamp Christmas Ghost Story Contest

Our annual contest.

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Previous Issues

Issue 30: Our Assumption 2025

Our Assumption 2025 issue features Peter Hitchens on the atom bomb, Jude Russo on the United Nations, Gregory Caridi on the future of the trad movement, Peter Howarth on Richard Ellmann’s biography of James Joyce, David Bentley Hart on Goethe, as well as contributions from Susan Richbourg Parker, B. D. McClay, Augustin Laffay and Gianni Festa,…

Issue 29: Our Trinity 2025

Our Trinity 2025 issue commemorates Pope Francis with contributions from Diarmaid MacCulloch, Edward Feser, Santiago Ramos, Makoto Fujimura, Piers Paul Read, Zena Hitz, Stephen P. White, Margaret Hebblethwaite, Robert Wyllie, Christopher Beha, Philip Jeffery, Thomas Pink, Massimo Faggioli, Leah Libresco Sargeant, Michael Hanby, and Matthew…

Issue 28: Our fifth anniversary issue

Our fifth anniversary issue features Emmett Rensin on the asylum, Stanley Fish on academic freedom, Bill McMorris on sports betting, Peter Totleben on a Catholic approach to politics, Sam Kriss on the inauguration, Dominic Green on Solzhenitsyn’s novels, as well as contributions from Joanna Bogle, Sean Pilcher, Richard Cipolla, Alexander Larman,…

Issue 27: Our Lent 2025

Our Lent 2025 issue features Matthew Walther on the American parish, Paul J. Griffiths on artificial intelligence, Mary Kate Rogers on miscarriage, Carey Wallace on propaganda, Minoo Dinshaw on childhood reading, Ross Douthat on his conversion, as well as contributions from Dominic Lynch, Alberto M. Fernandez, Volker Leppin, Alexander Larman,…

Issue 26: Our Christmas 2024

Our Christmas 2024 issue features Matthew Walther on reading habits, Zena Hitz on Eva Brann, Byung-Chul Han on hope, Robert Wyllie on papal citations, Nic Rowan on human composting, Peter Howarth on William Morris, as well as contributions from Frederick Woodward, Edward Short, Brian Svoboda, Hannah Rowan, Theodore Dalrymple, Cajetan Skowronski,…

Issue 25: Our Christ the King

Our Christ the King issue includes Sam Kriss on Taylor Swift, Nathan Payne on Catholic schools, Stanley Fish on the presidential election, Peter Hitchens on Ian Fleming, Edward Short on Hardy's poetry, as well as contributions from John F. Quinn, Carino Hodder, Jodi Magness, Vincent L. Strand, Jaspreet Singh Boparai, David Bentley Hart, Eduard…