Arts & CultureCatholic Book Club
Christopher Lasch's writings are cited by everyone from the most fervent cultural conservatives to dyed-in-the-wool Marxists—and he had much to say about modern American culture.
Arts & CultureCatholic Book Club
All Saints Day is a day to venerate holy men and women—and also to recognize the saints in our midst, complicated though they might be.
Arts & CultureCatholic Book Club
From Edgar Allan Poe to Dean Koontz to Flannery O'Connor, America's editors and contributors are not (always) afraid of some horror.
Arts & CultureCatholic Book Club
Toni Morrison's fiction conveyed much of the pain, sacrifice and trauma that exemplifies so much of the African-American experience—which is why it makes some white readers uncomfortable.
FaithScripture Reflections
A Reflection for Thursday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time, by James T. Keane
Arts & CultureCatholic Book Club
Sinéad O’Connor's provocative appearance on 'Saturday Night Live' 30 years ago drew cries of outrage. But was some of her anger justified?
Arts & CultureCatholic Book Club
Powers’s chosen subjects—in cassocks or nay—are inevitably All-American, and his stories are careful studies of American mid-century life and ambition.
Arts & CultureCatholic Book Club
Evelyn Waugh's reputation has endured for almost a century as other novelists have fallen out of fashion. It wasn't because everyone thought him a jolly fellow.
Arts & CultureCatholic Book Club
John Irving writes characters who, like Flannery O’Connor’s American South, seem somehow God-haunted.
FaithScripture Reflections
A Reflection for Thursday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time, by James T. Keane