The Lamp (magazine)
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The Lamp is an American bimonthly magazine devoted to literature, culture, and politics from a Catholic perspective.[1][2] It was founded in 2019 by Matthew Walther and William Borman.[3]
The magazine regularly features reporting, personal essays, and book reviews on a broad range of topics. It seeks "with reporting, incisive commentary, and coverage of books and the arts to bring the mind of the Church and a generous, urbane spirit to bear on the questions of modern life."[4] The Lamp has been described by The Catholic Spirit, the official newspaper of the Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, as "a Catholic version of The New Yorker."[5]
The magazine derives its logo from a previous English Catholic periodical of the same name, published by Thomas Earnshaw Bradley during the Victorian era.[6]
History
Matthew Walther, then a columnist at The Week, founded the magazine along with William Borman after noticing that in an otherwise relatively wide and diverse landscape of Catholic media in the English-speaking world, there was nothing "that is actually a magazine, as opposed to a website or a newswire or what-have-you, that is orthodox."[7] The Lamp seeks to fill that gap, "operating under the assumption that anything that is good, true and beautiful falls within the purview of what should be in a good Catholic magazine."[8]
The magazine's first issue included an essay by Hillbilly Elegy author J. D. Vance about his conversion to Catholicism.[9] The Lamp regularly features work from prominent writers and public intellectuals, including Giorgio Agamben, Peter Hitchens, Sam Kriss, and David Bentley Hart.
References
- ^ "Home". The Lamp Magazine. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
- ^ Waldstein, Pater Edmund; O.Cist. (2019-07-09). "The Lamp". Sancrucensis. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
- ^ ""Word from the Cloisters" The Tablet:The International Catholic Weekly". The Tablet.
- ^ "The Lamp". The Catholic University of America. 2020.
- ^ ""Meditation on a magazine cover" The Catholic Spirit". The Catholic Spirit.
- ^ Farrow, M (2020). "The Lamp: Why these Catholics are creating a print magazine in a digital age". Catholic News Agency. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
- ^ Farrow, M (2020). "The Lamp: Why these Catholics are creating a print magazine in a digital age". Catholic News Agency. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
- ^ Farrow, M (2020). "The Lamp: Why these Catholics are creating a print magazine in a digital age". Catholic News Agency. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
- ^ ""The Radicalization of J. D. Vance" The Washington Post". The Washington Post.
- ^ Douthat, Ross (2021-04-01). "The Cul-De-Sacs of the Christian Intellectual". Reactions. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
- ^ Slade, S (2021-07-23). ""Magazines: The Lamp"". Reason: Free Minds and Free Markets. Retrieved 2021-11-08.