In her fourth book, The Virgin of Prince Street: Expeditions Into Devotion, Sonja Livingston introduces herself as a “pilgrimess” returning to her childhood church in Rochester, N.Y., after not regularly attending Mass for 20 years.
Literature
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Review: A novel for the age of ‘Laudato Si’’
Richard Powers’s brilliant novel, ‘The Overstory,’ which won the the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a story about people who feel a kinship with all ecological life.
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Review: The remarkable friendship of Emerson and Thoreau
In Solid Seasons, Jeffrey S. Cramer explores the deep friendship between the two literary titans.
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Review: ‘The Sacrament’ tells a searing story about abuse in the Catholic Church
The horrors of abuse remain offstage, barely spoken of, yet the entire book is haunted by them.
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Review: The pros and cons of being Extremely Online™
Green’s novel gives a firsthand account of what it is like when a person becomes a brand, when one’s every thought, word and move is scripted, scheduled and scrutinized, ready to be devoured by an audience always demanding more.
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Review: Pope Francis, the church’s spiritual director
Seeing Pope Francis as spiritual director means seeing that the pope takes himself less seriously than do his critics and defenders.
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These are the monks who still preserve ancient texts around the world
Even though manuscripts—handwritten books— are at least several technological stages behind the ways we access information today, we still rely on them for access to the past.
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Review: Is there still such a thing as a Catholic writer?
Can poetry matter? Yes. Can the Catholic writer today matter? Of course. But it is instructive that Gioia’s essay and book title does not ask the latter question.
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Review: Andrew Krivak’s ‘The Bear’ shows the cycle of life
Andrew Krivak’s new novel is an elegiac tale that resonates deeply with the creation spirituality that has been rising in our collective imagination.
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Review: Susan Sontag’s dramatic life (and influence)
One of Susan Sontag’s strengths was that anything that could be said about her by others was said, first and best, by Susan Sontag