With ‘The Sparrow,’ Mary Doria Russell imagines an alien world in intimate and fascinating detail—and then sends along some humans with deep questions about faith, God and the universe.
James T. Keane
James T. Keane is a Senior Editor at America.
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What the editors of America magazine are reading this summer
America’s editors on some books that might catch our readers’ fancy in these final weeks of summer.
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‘The destroyer of worlds’: 75 years of ‘America’ on Oppenheimer
A new movie treats the life of Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb”—and someone whose exploits and commentaries received much treatment in ‘America’ over the years.
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Moses, the burning bush and a Jesuit fire extinguisher
A Reflection for Wednesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by James T. Keane
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Why so many Jesuit characters in sci-fi? Because the genre deals with God and the problem of evil.
When we think of science fiction, lasers and aliens might come to mind first—but it is also a genre in which religious imagination plays a role.
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Francis Talbot, S.J., the world’s spiciest Catholic editor
Francis X. Talbot, S.J., was for many years America’s literary editor, and later its editor in chief. He was also a saucy literary stylist who loved nothing more than a good argument.
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Why today’s students should read James Baldwin in school
James Baldwin’s novels and essays loomed large in the 1950s and 1960s, but they have fallen out of favor with teachers in many literature courses. Is it time for a revival of his works?
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My father, the Gospel and the power of personal prayer
A Reflection for the Memorial of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, by James T. Keane
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Cormac McCarthy’s Catholic visions of sin
Was Cormac McCarthy our greatest American novelist? Or did he take his readers to darker places than many of them wanted to go?
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Jesuit Roger Haight’s lifetime of theological achievement
Roger Haight, S.J., was honored by the Catholic Theological Society of America this past weekend in Milwaukee for his contributions to academic theology and the church, a well-deserved tribute to a scholar who has endured much for his vocation as a theologian.