Here are five faith facts about Obama from his highly anticipated book released Tuesday, Nov. 17.
Literature
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Remembering Jim Dwyer: Jesuit-educated, Pulitzer Prize winner and the last bard of New York
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.
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We created our present-day crises. It’s uncomfortable but not unfixable.
Jason Blakely show that the very tools we human beings use to try to understand the world in fact end up constructing it, for better or for worse.
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Review: The Native American fight for survival in a white world
Stephen Graham Jones’s new novel creates an extraordinary portrait of sacrifice and costly reconciliation.
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Review: Stories of hope in a weary world
The stories in Valerie Sayers’s new collection are populated with characters who strive to hang on to something good.
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Reading C. S. Lewis in the Time of Covid
The question Lewis proposed is analogous to the one we have to deal with now: What use is it to study during wartime?
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The radical embodiment of Louise Glück’s poetry
The recognition of Louise Glück with the Nobel Prize in Literature was a bright spot in 2020 for her fans and her fellow poets alike.
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The Catholic Book Club explores two literary classics
Over the summer the Catholic Book Club read John Kennedy Toole’s darkly comic novel, ‘A Confederacy of Dunces,’ and this fall we are finishing up our discussion of John Howard Griffin’s ‘Black Like Me.’
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Curtis Sittenfeld and the art of political fiction
Reality is messier than than fiction that reduces historical figures like Hillary Clinton to the sum of her most oversimplified virtues and vices.
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She was Paris’s most famous courtesan. Then she found God.
For Liane de Pougy life was a banquet, and she took seconds of every dish.