In this article from 1979, a Jesuit priest recalls his friendship with Flannery O’Connor.
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From 1958: How would Hemingway, Waugh or Greene have told the story of a dead dog?
In 1958, Joel Wells of Chicago’s “The Critic” contributed a somewhat unique story to America. How, he wondered, would some of our most famous authors tell the story of a dog that had been hit by a car?
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Los Angeles and what makes a great city
From 1957: Los Angeles is a large city. In some ways it is an important city. But it is not (yet) a great city.
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From 1973: Walker Percy on Wilfrid Sheed
In 1973, the famous novelist (and sometime America book reviewer) Walker Percy offered this long review of Wilfrid Sheed’s ‘People Will Always Be Kind.’
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Thomas Merton’s editor on the surprise success of ‘The Seven Storey Mountain’
In 1988, famed publisher Robert Giroux related his memories of what it was like to read and publish Thomas Merton’s ‘The Seven Storey Mountain.’
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Walter Ciszek, the Soviet gulag and American freedoms
The death yesterday in a Russian penal colony of Alexei Navalny might naturally bring to mind the story of Walter Ciszek, S.J., the famed American Jesuit who spent 23 years in Soviet captivity.
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From 1967: An interview with Yves Congar
In 1967, Patrick Granfield, O.S.B., conducted this wide-ranging interview with Yves Congar, O.P., the great theologian of Vatican II.
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Rummaging for God: Praying backward through your day with the Examen
This 1994 article by Dennis Hamm, S.J., on praying the examen has become a resource in countless classrooms and retreat centers.
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From 1999: Brian Moore’s Christ-Haunted Fiction
From Brian Moore’s earliest and best known novel, ‘The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne,’ to his last, ‘The Magician’s Wife,’ the mystery of belief has haunted his best fiction.
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The Agony of Writing
From 1933: A longtime editor of America offers his thoughts on the agony of writing—as well as some of its joys and rewards.