In ‘Wit,‘ Dr. Vivian Bearing uses her formidable intellect as a shield against her existential terror.
Arts & Culture
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Is it moral to watch football? Here’s what America magazine said over the years
A spate of football injuries—and news that the longterm effects of the game can be catastrophic for the human brain—raise the question: What is the future of football?
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Olivia Rodrigo’s new album ‘GUTS’ reveals how secular ideals leave us empty
Olivia Rodrigo’s childhood naïveté meets harsh reality in ‘GUTS’.
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
Playwright Annie Baker offers a theology of pain in her new play ‘Infinite Life’
For theater fans, the arrival of a new Annie Baker play is cause for celebration.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Movie Club
So fetch: What ‘Mean Girls’ can teach you about your spiritual life
Popularity. Temptation. Vanity. Wearing Pink on Wednesdays.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Is it really possible to transform your life?
Katy Carl’s debut collection of short stories examines how people manage change in their lives—whether they have actively sought what comes next or had it forced upon them.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
The atheist author Jesuits loved: Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch might seem like an unlikely candidate for praise from America reviewers, but her philosophical novels about love and alienation earned many praise-filled reviews over the years.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Movie Club
‘Peggy Sue Got Married’ asks: What if you could do it all over again?
This is what Peggy Sue learns: we all want a second chance at the past, but the real second chances only happen in the here and now.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Seamus Heaney lost his Catholic faith. But his poetry still sought transcendence.
Ten years after his death, commentators and admirers of Seamus Heaney are still looking for new ways to measure his life and work.
