Books

Kathleen Norris’ ‘Acedia & Me,’ reviewed

A study in tolerance, reviewed

Mary Oliver rsquo s newest book The Truro Bear and Other Adventures Poems and Essays will certainly please connoisseurs of her work and will likely win her new readers as well The 35 poems and prose sketches in the collection that have been previously published present themselves as familiar fri

Richard P. McBrien's 'The Church,' reviewed

In his most affective and affecting epistle St Paul wrote to the Philippians ldquo I give thanks to my God for all my memories of you rdquo Phil 1 3 Paul rsquo s eucharistic remembering came repeatedly to mind while reading the Rev John Jay Hughes rsquo s lovely and moving autobiography No

This new selection of C S Lewis rsquo s letters on spiritual matters makes good reading even for someone already conversant with Lewis rsquo s life and work Compiled by the longtime Lewis scholar and enthusiast Paul F Ford Yours Jack is reader-friendly The subtitle suggests that the collectio

The legacy of 'Little House on the Prairie'

James Howard Kunstler rsquo s novel begins in the pastoral setting of a riverbank where the narrator Robert Earle and his best friend Loren Holder have concluded a successful fishing excursion Although they are slightly intoxicated by the natural beauty around them and by some home-made wine th

Alan Jacobs’ ‘Original Sin,’ reviewed

Stephen Tipton’s ‘Public Pulpits,’ reviewed