April 25, 2011

Ron Hansen reviews Andrew Dubus III’s memoir of his absentee father

In the wake of her husband's death, Joyce Carol Oates struggled with resentment, despair, rage, and guilt.

Back in the 1960s there was almost universal acceptance among social scientists of the ldquo secularization thesis rdquo the belief that as societies became more modern mdash more economically developed technologically sophisticated democratic etc mdash they would become increasingly secular

Poems and prayers from Thomas Flowers, S.J.

Together with director James Franco, Paul Mariani set out to find the poet, Hart Crane.

In the Korean film ‘Poetry,’ empathy and gratitude follow from attentiveness and reflection.

Second Sunday of Easter (A), May 1, 2011