This week’s guest is Liam Callanan, associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and author of the forthcoming novel, Paris by the Book. Mr. Callanan is the recipient of the 2017 George Hunt, S.J., Prize in Arts, Letters and Journalism, which is co-sponsored by America Media and the Saint Thomas More Chapel & […]
Literature
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Is Philip Pullman the anti-C.S.Lewis?
In a roundabout way, Pullman does Christians a service by writing his anti-Christian books.
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Want to teach your children U.S. history? Here’s where to start.
A survey of children’s books that put a human face on the complexities of America’s past
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Introducing America’s Fall Literary Review 2017
An introduction to America’s Fall Literary Review 2017.
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A great Catholic avante-garde novel, and why it is surprisingly relevant today
Much like Virgil in the pages of Hermann Broch’s book, we need to decide almost daily what we stand up for and when—and what price we are willing to pay for our convictions.
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Faith, feminism & formalism: Kim Bridgford reflects on a life in poetry
Poet Kim Bridgford hopes to publish an essay on every woman poet who has ever lived through the Mezzo Cammin Women Poets Timeline, which she edits.
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America Interviews | Kim Bridgford, Poet
Kim Bridgford, an award-winning poet and editor of Mezzo Cammin, a journal of formalist poetry by women, sat down with O’Hare Fellow Colleen Dulle to talk about faith and its influence on her work.
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Can Thomas Merton help us deal with the crises of our time?
This week’s guest is Andrew Lenoir, a Quaker-raised, New York-based writer, historian and speechwriter. He joins the show to discuss latest for America: ”What would Thomas Merton make of Trump, climate change and Twitter?” Mr. Lenoir’s essay explores the lessons that Thomas Merton’s work can offer in increasingly divided times. “Shortly after the election I […]
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Is Salman Rushdie the novelist we need to capture America under Trump?
Rushdie is a writer keen to take on big, messy matters—and few are bigger or messier these days than American life at home and abroad.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: a novelist who was Catholic, but not a ‘Catholic novelist’
F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed the American dream primarily through its failures to bring happiness to his main characters.