Books
Want to teach your children U.S. history? Here’s where to start.
A survey of children’s books that put a human face on the complexities of America’s past
Has the United States learned its lesson after the My Lai Massacre?
This is a book about war, about inhumane acts, about personal and institutional instincts of self-preservation.
The forest was his cathedral: three new books deepen our understanding of Thoreau
Three recent books on Thoreau, prompted by the the 200th anniversary of his birth, deepen our understanding of him.
Reporting on World War II: to hell and back, all for a good story
The Great War had a tincture of tragic elegy…. World War II, by contrast, was thoroughly modern, disengaged from any romantic past.
Former Seattle police chief calls for fundamental changes to U.S. policing
“To Protect and Serve” offers an insider’s look into how to reform policing in the United States.
Poet Robert Lowell’s ‘graced but damaged’ life
“It was no great surprise that Lowell threw himself into Catholicism and took his Catholicism to a psychotic extreme.”
A theologian targeted by the Vatican defends religious pluralism
“The church as a whole, cannot grasp the vastness of God,” Peter Phan argues.
‘Of The Making of Books There Is No End’: a survey of our Fall Literary Review 2017
A quick survey of the books reviewed in America’s Fall Literary Review 2017.
Introducing America’s Fall Literary Review 2017
An introduction to America’s Fall Literary Review 2017.
A great Catholic avante-garde novel, and why it is surprisingly relevant today
Much like Virgil in the pages of Hermann Broch’s book, we need to decide almost daily what we stand up for and when—and what price we are willing to pay for our convictions.
Why Satan’s character in Paradise Lost is the original antihero
John Milton’s Paradise Lost (published in 1667) may be more relevant in our time than ever before.
From ‘Good Kid’ to ‘DAMN.’ Kendrick Lamar shows faith is constantly changing
Released in April 2017, “DAMN.” portrays Kendrick Lamar’s internal torment as he struggles with his faith.
What to expect when you’re expecting…to write a book
There are no epidurals for manuscripts.
F. Scott Fitzgerald: a novelist who was Catholic, but not a ‘Catholic novelist’
F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed the American dream primarily through its failures to bring happiness to his main characters.
Harvard Business School and the American pursuit of profit
H.B.S. can provide students with a “golden passport” to a wealthy lifestyle, but do ethical business practices get lost along the way?
A convicted and crucified peasant
Michael Peppard reviews “Destroyer of the Gods: Early Christian Distinctiveness in the Roman World” by Larry W. Hurtado.
Poetry
Faith, feminism & formalism: Kim Bridgford reflects on a life in poetry
Poet Kim Bridgford hopes to publish an essay on every woman poet who has ever lived through the Mezzo Cammin Women Poets Timeline, which she edits.
Death Visits the Garden
He is putting his whole hood/ over the hyssop, lowering his bone nose/ for the scent.
Hornets’ Nest
“I really feel I can touch you even in this darkness when I pray.” —War correspondent James Foley (1973—2014) from his last message to his family “Man Jack the man is, just” Gerard Manley Hopkins Recovered now enough to scrub the deck, which turned dun brown with insidious dirt and…
Culture
What does it mean to prove one’s “manhood” in war?
Raymond A. Schroth, S.J., America’s books editor, considers shifting masculine ideals in film and literature.
Faith
What to expect when you’re expecting…to write a book
There are no epidurals for manuscripts.
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