Flannery O’Connor was, like many people of her time, “a walking contradiction when it came to matters of race.”
Books
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Scott Cairn’s poetry of immanence
Cairns is a rare figure in American letters: a religious poet free of mawkish piety.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Looking for a good summer read? Check out these books by authors of color.
Recommendations from the editors of America magazine, plus some poetry too!
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Colson Whitehead and the long reach of trauma
Colson Whitehead’s award-winning novel is a timely reflection on who gets to write history…and who gets to erase it.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Ross Douthat on our state of stagnation
Ross Douthat explores the cultural, economic and political torpor that he thinks has emerged in the United States over the last half-century.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: An insider’s look at cop culture
His vivid firsthand experiences on the job as a police officer are recounted extensively in Adam Plantinga’s new book.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: When musicians go from outliers to icons
Ted Gioia’s new treatise on music and musicians covers everything from the Big Bang to gangsta rap.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: The theology of sin
Two recently published books from Oxford University Press address the variegated and multifaced character of sin in the New Testament.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Why Americans should brush up on their Catholic history
Leslie Woodcock Tentler’s new book is both a rigorous and laudable effort to cure American Catholics of the illusion that our desires have no history.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: When a dream of equality is deferred
Eric Foner’s new book tells a sad story: how the U.S. Supreme Court, many Southern states and Congress delayed the implementation of three important constitutional amendments for nearly a century.