Corita Kent (1918–86) deserves recognition alongside her far more famous secular counterpart, the pop artist Andy Warhol. But remarkably, no one has published a comprehensive biography of the artist who was seen by some as the “rebel nun.”
Books
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
The transformational world of Jon Hassler
Jon Hassler’s sacramental imagination brightens a world grown gray with the banality of reality television and teenage paranormal romances.
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Junípero Serra: A Not-Perfect Saint
‘Junípero Serra,’ by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz
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Living Like Snape: Lessons From Hogwarts
The beauty of Snape’s character is that he does not allow other characters’ doubts to dictate who he is.
Posted inArts & Culture, Interviews
Souls at War: An interview with the Iraq veteran and writer Phil Klay
Phil Klay won the National Book Award for fiction in 2014 for his collection of short stories, Redeployment. Writing in The New York Times, Dexter Filkins called it “the best thing written so far on what the war did to people’s souls.” A veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, Mr. Klay s
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Preacher, Icon, Entrepreneur
Billy Graham sought to make the entire population of America his congregation.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Catholic Book Club Archives
From 1928 to 2003, the Catholic Book Club worked as a subscription service where America partnered with publishers to mail books to CBC readers. A (more or less) comprehensive list of 75 years worth of selections can be found here.
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An ‘America’ reading list: 150 short essays on 270 books
Reading suggestions from scholars—some long, some short…
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Saints Among Us
Robert Bartlett’s book will also be welcome to those who have experienced something of the power of the cult of the saints in their own time and place.
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Robert Silvers and the minds behind the New York Review of Books
The nature of reading is private, but part of the thrill of reading a magazine is the knowledge that others are reading the same material at roughly the same time.