From 2009: On William Shakespeare’s birthday, Kathleen Doherty Fenty asks: Does it matter what his faith was?
Literature
Posted inArts & Culture, Of Many Things
Salman Rushdie, Giordano Bruno and religious intolerance
May we hope that all faiths can forever put behind them the use of censorship or violence against writers in the defense of religion.
Posted inEditorials, Faith
Updike at Rest: Commentary
An appreciation of a Christian man of letters.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
His Universe Was Infinite
Why was Giordano Bruno burned at the stake?
Posted inArts & Culture, Culture
The last Catholic novelist: The grace-filled fiction of Jon Hassler
Remembering Jon Hassler, the author of grace-filled Catholic fiction.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Christmas Reading Picks: Gift ideas from America’s editors
Gift ideas from America Media.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Surprised by Joy
For the reader whose misfortune it is not to have yet discovered Kelly Cherry’s poems , this is your lucky day. Cherry’s new book offers a generous sampling of the poet’s work, culled from six previous volumes.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Getting Personal
Alice Munro is at the height of her powers as a short story writer in this collection, navigating with extraordinary agility the border between memoir and fiction.