The challenge of invisibility is paramount in ‘The Refugees.’
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Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Viet Thanh Nguyen writes about the refugees we don’t remember anymore
The author of “The Sympathizer” has a new book of short stories about Vietnamese-Americans who do not fit stereotypes.
Posted inArts & Culture
Lemony Snicket’s tales for children take children seriously
As in real life, in Netflix’s adaptation unfortunate events take their course, punctuated by victories great and small, ad infinitum.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Three little-known Catholic novels that can enrich your faith
The work of Kate O’Brien, Brian Moore and John McGahern deserve attention in any conversation about the Catholic literary tradition.
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A lover of fiction sets out to find the truth
Moonglow may be the most entertaining, well-written and truthful memoir you’ve ever read.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
‘A Man Called Ove’ will win the foreign film Oscar. Oddly, it deserves it.
Thanks to the arcane rules behind the foreign-language Oscar, sentimentality usually reigns supreme.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Have you read the most-circulated book in the history of Christianity (after the Bible)?
After St. Ignatius discovered ‘Imitation of Christ,’ he “never wished to read any other devotional book.”
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Advice for young Muslims from a wise father
Omar Saif Ghobash, ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Russia, has written a series of essays to his two teenage sons Saif and Abdullah.
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A Mass Murder of Children Everyday
Every day, an average of seven children are shot and killed the United States.
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Evelyn Waugh: addicted to alcohol and sex, haunted by God
Waugh was never reconciled to the use of vernacular in the Catholic liturgy, for which he had gained great devotion for 30 years.