Ernest Hemingway’s breakthrough novel was published 100 years ago this week. ‘America’ didn’t have much to say about Hemingway then, but in the years since, he’s been a favorite topic.
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What I saw at the premiere (for the trailer) of the new Narnia movie
Just a few short hours before the trailer for Greta Gerwig’s “Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew” went live on Tuesday afternoon, I watched it in a theater with Gerwig herself.
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Can Florence Pugh redeem Steinbeck’s cruelest villain in Netflix’s ‘East of Eden’?
A new adaptation of John Steinbeck’s “East of Eden” offers a hint of redemption for some of the novel’s villains while also engaging with Steinbeck’s primary themes.
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Pope Leo biographer reacts to his health scare and unpacks the experiences shaping his papacy
This week on the “Jesuitical” podcast, Ashley McKinless and Zac Davis speak with NPR’s Scott Detrow about Pope Leo’s cancer diagnosis and Scott’s new book on the pope’s life.
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‘Speak, O Muse, of that ingenious woman’: Anne Carson wins the Nobel Prize
Though she was raised Catholic and a formative book in her childhood was an illustrated Lives of the Saints, Anne Carson does not have much time for the institutional church.
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Works both familiar and surprising: America’s Fall poetry roundup
In this roundup of poetry from the past year, ‘America’ editors and staff explore worlds of verse and fragments of reality that enchant and unsettle.
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Review: Liberation and Palestine
‘The Cross and the Olive Tree: Cultivating Palestinian Theology Amid Gaza,’ edited by the Palestinian theologians (and brothers) John and Samuel Munayer, can teach us much about a faith-based, justice response to the situation in the Middle East today.
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Review: War and (uneasy) peace
Helen Benedict’s latest novel, ‘The Soldier’s House,’ focuses on the Iraq war, the turmoil it caused in the lives of one Iraqi family, and the American soldier who tries to help them.
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Review: The American antichrists of our age
in ‘Defying Tyrants,’ Matthew Taylor argues that modern-day Christians concerned about the rise of Christian supremacist movements may benefit from recovering the early church’s understanding of the concept.
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‘Catcher in the Rye’ at 75: America magazine’s critiques (and defenses) of the classic novel
America more or less atoned over the years for its initial dismissal of Catcher in the Rye.