Arts & Culture, Books

Review: Yaa Gyasi’s fully human characters

by Erika Rasmussen November 19, 2020

Come to Yaa Gyasi’s fiction, all you who are weary and burdened, and she will give you heartbreak.

Arts & Culture, Books

Review: Life is dull. Enjoy it anyway.

by Vivian Cabrera November 19, 2020

Anne Tyler’s new novel can help us realize that life often is not spectacular or about jumping from one big event to the next.

Arts & Culture, Books

Review: Marilynne Robinson returns to Gilead

by Joseph Simmons November 19, 2020

Those familiar with the Gilead story will find in Marilynne Robinson’s latest novel another beautiful meditation on grace operative in spite of habits of despair and the social sins that feed them.

Arts & Culture, Books

Los Angeles: a city of faith, beauty and pain

by Michael E. Engh November 19, 2020

A longtime historian of Los Angeles explores and deconstructs the mythical city of boosters, developers and “perpetual reinvention.”

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Arts & Culture, Books

The art of book reviewing

by Nick Ripatrazone November 19, 2020

If you think being a writer is nerve-wracking, try being a reviewer.

Faith, News

Five faith facts about former President Barack Obama’s new book: ‘A Promised Land’

by Adelle Banks - Religion News Service November 19, 2020

Here are five faith facts about Obama from his highly anticipated book released Tuesday, Nov. 17.

Arts & Culture, Last Take

Remembering Jim Dwyer: Jesuit-educated, Pulitzer Prize winner and the last bard of New York

by Eileen Markey October 26, 2020

The death of renowned reporter Jim Dwyer is a loss for New York City—as well as for all the people he influenced, informed, or touched in other ways over the course of an impressive life.