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April 2024

Vol. 230 / No. 4

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Arts & Culture Books
Joshua HrenMarch 14, 2024

Like the haunted Dublin of his forebear James Joyce, Edward P. Jones’s Washington, D.C., is visited by spiritual powers left off the tourist maps. Both Joyce’s and Jones’s stories move us through tragic epiphanies that leave the soul, pained by paralysis, on the threshold of conversion. Both ask us

Arts & Culture Books
Mike MastromatteoMarch 14, 2024

The novelist Mary Beth Keane has staked her claim as a creator of subtle but poignant storytelling. She also has strong words of rebuke for the church of her childhood.

Arts & Culture Books
Ari L. GoldmanMarch 14, 2024

Stephen Prothero's enriching book, 'God the Bestseller,' takes the reader on a journey through the publisher Eugene Exman's life and works.

Arts & Culture Books
Tom DeignanMarch 14, 2024

Some of Jimmy Breslin’s best work has now been collected in the Library of America’s latest volume, judiciously edited by one of Breslin’s true heirs, The New York Times correspondent Dan Barry.

Arts & Culture Books
Diane ScharperMarch 14, 2024

Paul Lynch’s 'Prophet Song' was inspired by the Syrian Civil War and the plight of those seeking refuge from the destruction and death occurring in Syria.

Arts & Culture Poetry
Angela TownsendMarch 14, 2024

The palest lavender is “Guardian Angel,”

Arts & Culture Poetry
Leath ToninoMarch 14, 2024

i don’t have a brother he was me