“Ordinary moments make the life”—not the catastrophe that we humans experience, or imagine we will one day experience.

'The Givenness of Things,' by Marilynne Robinson

'Eugene O’Neill,' by Robert M. Dowling

In 'American Mirrors' Deborah Solomon presents a thoughtful—if a touch heavy-handed—biography of Norman Rockwell.

Many retreat houses feature a labyrinth pilgrims wend their way through a circuitous though orderly route metaphorically tracing the ever ancient ever new challenge of cultivating union with a mysterious deity By contrast Peter McDonough rsquo s The Catholic Labyrinth a book that sketches a sp