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Celebrity and the Absence of Faith

Robert Fay

Arts & Entertainments by christopher beha ecco, 288 pages, $14.99 In Christopher Beha’s excellent debut novel, What Happened to Sophie Wilder?, writer Charlie Blakeman nearly laughs when Sophie, his...

Dogma and Beauty

Robert Fay

The Fine Delight: Postconciliar Catholic Literature?bynicholas ripatrazonewipf & stock, 202 pages, $23 Shortly after Robert Lowell’s conversion to Catholicism in1941, he announced to his horrified wife, Jean Stafford, a...