A few months ago, I predicted that the Francis pontificate would seek to establish cordial relations with the Rainbow Reich. (See “While We’re At It,” January 2024, composed late November 2023.) In mid-December the Vatican issued the declaration Fiducia Supplicans, vindicating my . . . . Continue Reading »
Walking on Thin Air is a splendid book about the simple joys of life like reading, writing, and walking. Continue Reading »
Having literary companions along the Lenten journey can help us live the traditional practices of intensified prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. Continue Reading »
Those familiar with Christian Wiman’s career will know he has explored various forms: poetry, anthology, criticism, and memoir. Zero at the Bone combines each of his talents to produce something familiar and yet strangely new. Continue Reading »
From a book on missionaries in the U.S. to espionage fiction, these are novels that should be on your list. Continue Reading »
That I May Dwell Among Them is a rigorous and illuminating look at biblical scholarship. Continue Reading »
The Catholic way is to include, and then sift: wise words from a wise priest that I remembered a few years back when I was reading, in this journal, an article withering in its condemnation of D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover and the British court decision that opened the way . . . . Continue Reading »
We asked some of our writers to contribute a paragraph about the most memorable books they read this year. Continue Reading »
If you have on your gift-list for Christmas any bookish men or women, then Ear Training would make a splendid gift. Continue Reading »
Like the denizens of the Divine Comedy, Jon Fosse’s characters are for the most part fixed in continuations of their erstwhile, earthly habits. Continue Reading »
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