I love the theatre and have been attending Broadway plays for decades mdash I rsquo m partial to musicals mdash and can name a string of favorites but last weekend I was nbsp ldquo blown away rdquo as a certain generation might phrase it during a performance of ldquo South Pacific rdquo at t

This is shaping up as the season of “kindness.” I’ll cite only three book examples. First, there is On Kindness, by Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $20 hardcover). Phillips is a psychoanalyst who has written 12 other books. Taylor has written acclaime

The fifth in a series for Lent

Genocide Uncovered; Ignatian Insights; Avian Awareness

Christmas Poems New Directions. 96p $11.95 A wonderful stocking stuffer, this collection of Christmas poems, carols and ballads (assembled by the publisher) draws from the literature of many places and times—spanning, in fact, almost 2,000 years. Its contents of 84 entries very tidily provide

Another fall publishing season is upon us.

Redeemed A spiritual Misfit Stumbles Toward God Marginal Sanity and the Peace That Passes All By Heather King Viking 238p 24 95 A brutally honest moving and heartfelt memoir Redeemed is an account of ongoing recovery conversion to Catholicism and a journey across terrifying borders into a new

I recently returned from perhaps the best vacation of my life Eight days on the Mayan Riviera where some friends and I stayed at the Riu Palace Mexico a five-star resort south of Cancun Cozumel I highly recommend a trip there to all of you The all-inclusive package is a best buy for sure

Awaiting a spring that is coming slowly to the Big Apple, I fast-forward my thoughts and summon the words of the 18th-century poet James Thomson: “…who can paint/ like Nature? Can imagination boast,/ amid its gay creation, hues like hers?” Signs and wonders will soon abound in all