Seeing Pope Francis as spiritual director means seeing that the pope takes himself less seriously than do his critics and defenders.

Can poetry matter? Yes. Can the Catholic writer today matter? Of course. But it is instructive that Gioia’s essay and book title does not ask the latter question.

One of Susan Sontag’s strengths was that anything that could be said about her by others was said, first and best, by Susan Sontag

Andrew Krivak's new novel is an elegiac tale that resonates deeply with the creation spirituality that has been rising in our collective imagination.

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'Body Leaping Backward' is a melancholy, atmospheric memoir that reads as a sort of urgent confession.