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.

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

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

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

At a public memorial service in the cathedral, the site of the funerals of James Baldwin and Duke Ellington, several friends of Ms. Morrison provided their recollections of her talent, warmth and sense of humor.