Though ‘lapsed,’ the prolific author was obsessed with the church.
Literature
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Phil Klay named 2018 Hunt Prize winner
Mr. Klay will be awarded the $25,000 George W. Hunt, S.J., Prize at ceremony in September.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Flannery O’Connor and the Catholic editor who nurtured her career
Patrick Samway draws from letters to paint a picture of an editor and a writer who rarely met in person but who nonetheless forged a close bond.
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
What Childish Gambino and Flannery O’Connor have in common
Gambino’s new video for ‘This is America’ is an experience of radical interruption, one that O’Connor would have appreciated.
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
Harry Potter is now on Broadway and it might never leave
“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” is both a sequel to Rowling’s iconic seven-book series and a canny rehash of many of its tropes.
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
From alcoholism and agnosticism to converting to Catholicism: a conversation on faith with Mary Karr
Mary Karr delivers many truths that you need to hear.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
‘Howards End’ is another period drama worth falling for
E. M. Forster’s masterpiece is a state-of-the-nation thesis in the guise of a real estate inheritance plot.
Posted inArts & Culture, Features
How Joan of Arc conquered Mark Twain
“Now listen to what an old man tells you. My best book is my Recollections of Joan of Arc.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
Arthur Miller examined by his daughter in a new HBO documentary
Rebecca Miller has made a film that pays complicated tribute to a complex man.
Posted inArts & Culture
An Ignatian guide to ‘A Wrinkle in Time’
The film invites all of us to wear our hearts on our sleeves, to be honest and unabashedly earnest, to hope.