Frank Wynne, chair of this year’s Booker judges, noted that translating ‘Tomb of Sand’ presented “huge challenges” because the novel is about words, language and storytelling, not just characters and plot. Another judge added that it is “safe to say this [novel] is like nothing else you have ever read.”
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Mom’s Still In Bed: Mona Simpson on family, fate and mental illness
Mona Simpson’s latest novel unfurls into a stirring cartography of the impacts of a mother’s deteriorating mental health on her three children.
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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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The Grimace Shake Moment of 2023 gave me hope for humanity (and brands)
Twitter has done its best to make me cynical. But every once in a while, there is a Grimace Shake moment.
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Catholic Movie Club: ‘Kiki’s Delivery Service’ and what God calls us to be
At its heart, “Kiki’s Delivery Service” is a meditation on discovering—and pursuing—your vocation.
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Review: An inner-city Boston parish’s lessons for building a vibrant church community
‘People Get Ready’ tells how an inner-city Boston parish managed to transform itself into a vibrant church community, an experience that Reynolds believes holds lessons for a new understanding of the role of the parish in Catholic ecclesiology.
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Interview: What playing ‘Father Brown’ taught Mark Williams about priests and the Catholic Church
Mark Williams has been playing Father Brown for 10 years, but “he never bores me,” he confides.
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Podcast: Finding God on Psychedelic Drugs
What the church teaches about drugs and intoxication? How should Christians respond to psychedelic drugs being used in therapeutic settings?
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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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Paul Simon’s ‘Seven Psalms’ is a biblical record of hope, fear and love
Paul Simon’s new album, ‘Seven Psalms,’ piles up its own imagery for God, encompassing the biblical God of both comfort and destruction.