Moving from the metapsychology and musicography of Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus to the metaphysics and theology of John Henry Newman’s Arianism, this general issue of Mosaic focuses on issues of religion and reality. Essays examine Gnosticism and Heart of Darkness; Thomas Moore; William Blake and eros; Virginia Woolf, intertextuality, and life; Hegel and Catholicism; and T.S. Elliot’s depiction of salvation. This issue also contains essays on Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse, Henrik Ibsen, and William Faulkner.