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
The horrors of abuse remain offstage, barely spoken of, yet the entire book is haunted by them.
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Review: The pros and cons of being Extremely Online™
Green’s novel gives a firsthand account of what it is like when a person becomes a brand, when one’s every thought, word and move is scripted, scheduled and scrutinized, ready to be devoured by an audience always demanding more.
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Review: Meghan Daum on ‘woke’ culture
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.
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Review: Pope Francis, the church’s spiritual director
Seeing Pope Francis as spiritual director means seeing that the pope takes himself less seriously than do his critics and defenders.
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Review: Is there still such a thing as a Catholic writer?
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.