Can poetry matter? Yes. Can the Catholic writer today matter? Of course. But it is instructive that Gioia’s essay and book title does not ask the latter question.
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Review: Andrew Krivak’s ‘The Bear’ shows the cycle of life
Andrew Krivak’s new novel is an elegiac tale that resonates deeply with the creation spirituality that has been rising in our collective imagination.
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Review: Susan Sontag’s dramatic life (and influence)
One of Susan Sontag’s strengths was that anything that could be said about her by others was said, first and best, by Susan Sontag
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A last-minute Christmas gift idea or two
Some last-minute gift ideas: books!
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Review: Reconstructing a lost youth
‘Body Leaping Backward’ is a melancholy, atmospheric memoir that reads as a sort of urgent confession.
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Review: How can Christians care for creation?
In his new book, Christopher Steck recommends a relationship of kinship to animals rather than one of dominion or stewardship.
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Author Toni Morrison Honored at Public Memorial
At a public memorial service in the cathedral, the site of the funerals of James Baldwin and Duke Ellington, several friends of Ms. Morrison provided their recollections of her talent, warmth and sense of humor.
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Review: The faith that made Mr. Rogers a great evangelist
Asked in 1986 to describe himself, Fred Rogers listed off a long catalog of descriptors, including performer and television producer, but he concluded with “a husband and a father. And I am a minister.”
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Review: The last words from John L’Heureux
A new collection of stories from the late John L’Heureux shows his literary dexterity.
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Review: The Greatest Showman on Earth
In ‘Barnum: An American Life,’ Robert Wilson, editor of The American Scholar, shows how P. T. Barnum morphed into (as he styled himself) “The Children’s Friend.”