Stephen Prothero’s enriching book, ‘God the Bestseller,’ takes the reader on a journey through the publisher Eugene Exman’s life and works.
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Novelist Mary Beth Keane finds grace in the ‘achingly ordinary’
Mary Beth Keane has staked her claim as a creator of subtle but poignant storytelling.
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The ghosts of James Joyce in Edward P. Jones’s writing
Both Joyce’s and Jones’s stories move us through tragic epiphanies that leave the soul, pained by paralysis, on the threshold of conversion.
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Review: In ‘Reading Genesis,’ Marilynne Robinson treats the Bible like a great work of literature
In her latest book, ‘Reading Genesis,’ Marilynne Robinson writes of a God that is in love with humanity. In all our flaws and folly, power and glory, she insists, “Human beings are at the center of it all.”
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Review: The heartwarming story of World War II’s ‘Doughnut Dollies’
In ‘Good Night, Irene,’ Luis Alberto Urrea weaves a vivid and heartfelt tapestry in telling the story of the ‘Doughnut Dollies’ in World War II.
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Review: Andre Dubus III returns his gaze to middle-class American life
In ‘Such Kindness,’ Andre Dubus III tells a powerful story full of sorrow and hope.
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Review: The ins and outs of a friendship with Graham Greene
Michael Mewshaw’s ‘My Man in Antibes’ is an entertaining, moving memoir, spiced with intriguing literary anecdotes about his sometimes fraught friendship with Graham Greene.
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Review: A mother’s thoughtful memoir delves deep
Megan Nix’s ‘Remedies for Sorrow’ is ostensibly a memoir, but confining Remedies for Sorrow to one genre seems too restrictive for what this expansive and enlightening book accomplishes.
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Review: A lively journey through Catholic fiction
Michael O’Connell’s ‘Startling Figures’ asks what American Catholic writers have in common—and the answers are not always obvious.
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Review: A meditation on faith
In his 2008 book, Tomáš Halík calls on the church to provide “dressing stations” for the wounded. Halík’s book is now available for the first time in an English translation by Gerald Turner as ‘Touch the Wounds: On Suffering, Trust, and Transformation.’