Tiny Lazarus.
Your story bigger than you and us.
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Arts & Culture
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
The author you probably never thought of as Irish: John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck, who won the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature, had many fans—and a few detractors—among reviewers in America over the years.
Posted inArts & Culture, Vantage Point
From 1972: ‘The Godfather’ is a film ‘close to the soul of modern man’
America’s film editor reviews “The Godfather,” a film he thought too long but otherwise a remarkable movie by a 33-year-old Francis Ford Coppola.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
‘Great Freedom’ is about longing for connection at a dangerous time to be gay
‘Great Freedom’ is an exploration of the nature of eros: the many acts, only some of them sexual, toward which it can propel us.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
Media elites are mystified by the success of ‘Yellowstone.’ But the show is a biblical epic.
Kevin Costner and Taylor Sheridan have graced us with a biblical epic, Genesis with guns.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
For John Cheever, ‘mere facts’ had nothing on a good story
Called “the Chekhov of the suburbs” for his intimate if painful portraits of American suburban life, John Cheever was a prose master and, said one reviewer, “a boyish scamp.”
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From 1994: A review of John Cheever’s ‘Thirteen Uncollected Stories’
A posthumous collection of some of John Cheever’s early stories shows his development as a writer.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: What can the writers of the Christian left tell us about the future?
If contemplation and criticism can lead to imitation, then writing about the literary Christian left of the last century might help establish a literary Christian left for this century.
Posted inArts & Culture, Interviews
‘Black is Blessed’: the Biblical, inclusive art of Laura James
Laura James’s fearless exuberance is on full display in her current exhibition at The Sheen Center for Thought and Culture in New York.
Posted inArts & Culture, Interviews
Racial barriers, basketball and faith: The legacy of the 1963 Loyola Ramblers
“The Loyola Project” is a new documentary about the breaking of racial barriers in basketball. Loyola Chicago team captain Lucas Williamson discusses his experience as narrator and cowriter, the 1963 team and his faith.