photos – Christian Leithart

Black Narcissus (1947)

In the Pudding

Crink Press Letterpress Printing

Letterpress stamp

The Five Best Movies I Watched for the First Time This Year

Throw Down

Stand By Me

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Mon Oncle

When Harry Met Sally

Haul

Book Covers I Like

A few years ago I was cataloguing the library of an eminent theologian, and I started to take pictures of the most interesting book covers. Here you are.

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It wasn’t so much the cover of this one as the note inside.

Library Cheek

Messing around with book titles.

Before and after

An Update in Photos

Two estate sale finds: a bookend in the shape of a monk at a prie dieu and Chesterton’s The Everlasting Man

View from outside my new school building, looking in at a quote painted on the wall

My classroom

A Man’s State on Camera

Carol M. Highsmith / Library of Congress

This picture of Noccalula Falls is one of fifty images of Alabama posted yesterday at the Atlantic. I live in a beautiful state, full of legends and rituals (most of the latter involving Nascar).