Early in Catherine Chandler’s first book, Lines of Flight, she writes of “a six-mile stretch of road” along the historic Route 66, where “two towns align,” one bearing an old friend’s family name and […]
Editor’s note: This is the second of a series of reviews and essays—positive, critical, and mixed—of Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option (Sentinel, 2017). Read the first essay here. With the publication of La Primauté du spirituel, […]
The last decade has been dotted with reluctant valedictions for the lost age of the American Catholic Literary Revival. Paul Elie’s The Life You Save May Be Your Own(2003), a hefty biographical history that interweaves […]
Imagine being the American architect, George Franklin Barber (1854-1915). Your designs for “houses and stores and churches” all fit on hundreds of little cards “threaded together with a length of yarn” to constitute a catalogue […]
In this age of Francis, in which the Holy Father seems to surprise everyone with his off-the-cuff pronouncements on matters of passionate intensity, we would do well to consider the work of David Craig, America’s […]
A new collection of poems is a remarkable retrospective on the career of one of America’s most accomplished and controversial poets. […]
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