Parsing Kate Daniels’ ‘Inscrutable’
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Mystery Man: Two new books set out to find Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Two new books set out to find Gerard Manley Hopkins.
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Books in Brief
The Duty of Delight The Diaries of Dorothy Day Edited by Robert Ellsberg Marquette Univ. Press. 700p $42 This first edition of the collected diaries of Dorothy Day is bound to become a modern spiritual classic. Many Catholics already know some basic facts about the American-born founder of the Catho
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The last Catholic novelist: The grace-filled fiction of Jon Hassler
Remembering Jon Hassler, the author of grace-filled Catholic fiction.
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A Wider Heart: Reading About Africa
The world stands out on either side/No wider than the heart is wide. —“Renascence” Edna St. Vincent Millay Recently, a friend of mine, a professional woman, sent me an e-mail message that she was going to Spain for vacation. Knowing that Spain was almost contiguous to Afric
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Imagining Jesus: Anne Rice discusses the hidden life of Christ.
Known for decades as the best-selling author of erotically charged vampire novels, Anne Rice spent nearly 40 years as a “card carrying atheist” before returning to the Catholic Church in 1998. Having sold more than 100 million books worldwide, Rice ultimately decided to leave “the
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Deck the Shelves With Books Aplenty
Christmas reading recommendations from our literary editor.
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A Friend of God
Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta (Doubleday, $22.95) is a disturbing book, one that has become a lightning rod for commentators of every stripe, from believers to unbelievers. Can it also be read as a consoling book? I believe so, though the consolation is not “c
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A Visit With Donald McCaig: One writer visits another, whose life is about to change.
I met the writer Donald McCaig a decade ago on a sheep farm he had created for himself near Williamsville, Va., (pop. 16) in rural Highland County. He had left the tense and competitive ad game in New York more than 25 years earlier. My wife, Judy, and I went for a weeklong stay. Though not p