A book is sometimes the most difficult gift to offer, but often it is the most rich.
Literature
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Art With Heart
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.”
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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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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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Catholic Imagination Attacked by Skateboarders Part the Third: “Catholic Literati: The Next Generation”; or Whoever Named this Panel Wasn’t Going to Be Sitting On It
At The Future of the Catholic Literary Imagination quot conference the most dynamic panel for my money was the one entitled quot Catholic Literati The Next Generation. Given this title I feel for the three men who made up the panel Randy Boyagada James Matthew Wilson and Josh Hren
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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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Man of Contradictions
I first discovered Mario Vargas Llosa in 1990 when I was in Peru to see a friend climb Machu Picchu and write an article That was the time when Vargas Llosa the novelist was running for president of Peru The guerilla movement Shining Path was terrorizing the countryside and the economy was fal
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A Legend Unraveled
Cesar Chavez is widely considered a great American hero. But ‘From the Jaws of Victory’ by Matt Garcia explores some of the activist’s flaws not often acknowledged by those who know only the legend.
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Beat Attitude: Jack Kerouac’s unexpected life
Despite his popular image, Jack Kerouac was born and died a self-identified Catholic.