August 2020

"The Laywoman Project" is a book primarily about changing concepts of women’s vocation during that rapidly moving decade.

Flannery O’Connor was, like many people of her time, “a walking contradiction when it came to matters of race.” 

Annalena Tonelli moved to Kenya in her 20s to work as a teacher. Her desire was to live among the poor as one of the poor.

Cairns is a rare figure in American letters: a religious poet free of mawkish piety.

Mantel’s portrait of More is of a self-serving whiner with a death wish. But what must always be remembered is that she is creating fiction.

I worried his soul had been out for too long.

they last seconds then dissipate like apologies