Remembering Jon Hassler, the author of grace-filled Catholic fiction.
Books
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Christmas Reading Picks: Gift ideas from America’s editors
Gift ideas from America Media.
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Surprised by Joy
For the reader whose misfortune it is not to have yet discovered Kelly Cherry’s poems , this is your lucky day. Cherry’s new book offers a generous sampling of the poet’s work, culled from six previous volumes.
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Twenty Centuries of Conversation
A review of Charles Taylor’s “A Secular Age”
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Getting Personal
Alice Munro is at the height of her powers as a short story writer in this collection, navigating with extraordinary agility the border between memoir and fiction.
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Reading in the Season of Lent
One could do worse than devote some time during Lent to ‘lectio divina’ and reading the Scriptures prayerfully.
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From These Ashes
Postapocalyptic novels were once popular back in the last millennium when we all worried about the Bomb and what it might do to us.
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Philip Roth’s Complaint
Roth’s language is mostly matter-of-fact, but often enough he launches into eloquent spasms of what the Germans call erlebte Rede (lived discourse), where writer and character breathe as one.