What stays with me in reading Ashbery is the sense of existential loneliness beneath the linguistic play and multiple voices. 

If the Christian intellectual is dead, has a Catholic cousin survived?

'Éamon de Valera,' by Ronan Fanning

A book is sometimes the most difficult gift to offer, but often it is the most rich.

Corita Kent (1918–86) deserves recognition alongside her far more famous secular counterpart, the pop artist Andy Warhol. But remarkably, no one has published a comprehensive biography of the artist who was seen by some as the “rebel nun.”

Jon Hassler's sacramental imagination brightens a world grown gray with the banality of reality television and teenage paranormal romances.