November 19, 2012

I came to Mary C Sullivan rsquo s biography of Catherine McAuley with several entrenched assumptions about the level of interest a 19th-century Irish founder of a women rsquo s religious order could possibly inspire These assumptions were handily challenged by the narrative sweep that Sullivan map

From poet Dana Gioia, powerful meditations on loss and the redemptive power of beauty

Charles Dickens and the London poor

Falling in love with Detroit

'Detroit' examines relationships in troubled times.

A 'Marie Antoinette' for the age of Occupy

His, at the age of six, was to be Zorro.