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Spring Literary Review 2017

Vol. 216 / No. 9

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Arts & Culture Of Many Things
Reading may be private act, but it has always had a social dimension.
Raymond A. Schroth, S.J.April 12, 2017

Welcome to America's biannual literary review

Arts & Culture Dispatches
News from the literary world: more things to read
Raymond A. Schroth, S.J.April 24, 2017

America's books editor surveys interesting recent articles on literature.

Arts & Culture Books
Why James Joyce said he was a Jesuit (but rebelled against the Catholic Church)
Ray CavanaughJanuary 03, 2017

Joyce spent thousands of hours with the Jesuits, who figure prominently in his debut novel.

An archive picture shows a priest celebrating Mass for French soldiers on the Champagne front in eastern France in 1915 (CNS photo/courtesy of the Collection Odette Carrez via Reuters). 
Arts & Culture Books
100 years after World War I, is it possible to hope in human progress?
John MattesonApril 06, 2017

John Matteson reviews two books about World War I: "The World Remade: America in World War I" and "The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End."

Abraham Lincoln. Source: Alexander Gardner, 1863
Arts & Culture Books
'Lincoln in the Bardo': Between heaven and hell, a half-lit existence
John AndersonApril 20, 2017

John Anderson reviews "Lincoln in the Bardo" by George Saunders.

Arts & Culture Books
The music of Van Cliburn was key to a Cold War thaw
Lisa A. BaglioneApril 23, 2017

Lisa Baglione reviews "Moscow Nights" by Nigel Cliff

Arts & Culture Books
Bosch and Bruegel: From the Monstrous To the Ordinary
Karen Sue SmithApril 24, 2017

Karen Sue Smith reviews "Bosch & Bruegel" by