Arts & Culture, Books

Review: Elizabeth Strout brings us back into the life of Olive Kitteridge

by Mary Gibbons January 23, 2020

Elizabeth Strout examines the human condition in a quiet setting where introspection cannot be escaped.

Arts & Culture, Books

Review: A travelogue on God, Darwin and the Galapagos Islands

by Christiana Zenner January 10, 2020

Brian McLaren’s ‘The Galápagos Islands: A Spiritual Journey’ is both a travelogue and a spiritual memoir.

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Review: A pilgrim in search of grace

by James M. Chesbro January 3, 2020

In her fourth book, The Virgin of Prince Street: Expeditions Into Devotion, Sonja Livingston introduces herself as a “pilgrimess” returning to her childhood church in Rochester, N.Y., after not regularly attending Mass for 20 years.

Arts & Culture, Books

Review: A novel for the age of ‘Laudato Si’’

by Brianne Jacobs January 2, 2020

Richard Powers’s brilliant novel, ‘The Overstory,’ which won the the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a story about people who feel a kinship with all ecological life.

Arts & Culture, Books

Review: The remarkable friendship of Emerson and Thoreau

by Cynthia-Marie Marmo O'Brien January 1, 2020

In Solid Seasons, Jeffrey S. Cramer explores the deep friendship between the two literary titans.

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Review: ‘The Sacrament’ tells a searing story about abuse in the Catholic Church

by Jenny Shank December 30, 2019

The horrors of abuse remain offstage, barely spoken of, yet the entire book is haunted by them.

Arts & Culture, Books

Review: Meghan Daum on ‘woke’ culture

by Jonathan Malesic December 27, 2019

In her new book, Meghan Daum recounts how, despite her unimpeachable feminist and liberal commitments, she came to feel not just wrong, but alienated from a new generation of “extremely online” activists.