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Nick Ripatrazone has written for Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, The Paris Review and Esquire. His books include Ember Days, a collection of stories and Longing for an Absent God: Faith and Doubt in Great American Fiction.

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Arts & CultureArt
Nick Ripatrazone
The Vatican Museums and the Andy Warhol Museum are finalizing a dual exhibition of Warhol’s religious works in Rome.
FaithFaith in Focus
Nick Ripatrazone
My fishing life has been a series of snagged lines and broken dreams.
Artist and underground filmmaker Andy Warhol poses with one of Polaroid's new film cameras, the Polavision camera, which features instant replay on television screens, Feb. 1, 1978. (AP Photo/Dave Pickoff)
Arts & CultureMedia
Nick Ripatrazone
Their Catholicism was not incidental to their theories and their art; it was their structure, their spirit and their sustenance.
Arts & CultureTelevision
Nick Ripatrazone
The everyday and the fantastical continue to live side by side as show enters second season.
Mia Farrow in 'Rosemary's Baby' (Getty Images)
Arts & CultureFilm
Nick Ripatrazone
American horror is a God-drenched genre, and many of the essential films in the genre are explicitly Catholic.
FaithFaith in Focus
Nick Ripatrazone
There is only so much room—in our houses, in our hearts. At some point, we have got to let go.
Arts & CultureFaith
Nick Ripatrazone
Usain Bolt has become a living legend in a track event that is known for creating superstars. His pre- and post-race rituals are purely Catholic, and yet the faith of one of the world’s most talked-about athletes is an open secret.
Arts & CultureIdeas
Nick Ripatrazone
'I saw the Catholic Church from the inside, like a tauntaun.'
Arts & CultureTelevision
Nick Ripatrazone
Sister Cathy Cesnik went missing one night in 1969. The case remains unsolved.
Arts & CultureIdeas
Nick Ripatrazone
Sor Juana Inés found both tension and sustenance in her religious life.