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Arts & Culture Vantage Point
June 14, 2022
When Fay Vincent Jr. resigned as commissioner of Major League Baseball in 1992 after a majority of Major League Baseball owners issued a vote of "no confidence" and called for him to step down, he chose America and his friend George W. Hunt, S.J., as the primary venue for his thoughts on the matter.
Arts & Culture Of Many Things
October 25, 2019
Books about books were of special interest to George W. Hunt, S.J., and so, in his honor, we reprint this Of Many Things column from Feb. 20, 1993.
Arts & Culture Of Many Things
September 27, 2017
On the particular genius of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Arts & Culture Vantage Point
December 09, 2015
In the spirit of Ecclesiasticus (44:1), let us now praise famous men: specifically Frank Sinatra.
October 07, 2012
One shaft of sunlight that has illuminated a rather gloomy year for most Americans has been the year-long celebration in honor of George Gershwin. When Gershwin died suddenly at age 38 in 1937, the novelist John O'Hara wrote in his typically hard-boiled-sentimental style: "They tell me George
Books
July 06, 2009
Blake Bailey's biography of John Cheever is a literary triumph in its own right.
Faith Editorials
February 16, 2009
An appreciation of a Christian man of letters.
Books
February 04, 2008
Allow me to presume that you are one of those mildly perverse people who finds delight in stories that run counter to your usual fuddy-duddy moral judgments offered in public If so then we know that there are several sure-fire kinds of narrative that never lose the naughty appeal of slumming with