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G. K. Chesterton on Dan Brown: The Interview
“Good literature may tell us the mind of one man; but bad literature may tell us the mind of many men. A good novel tells […]
fiction
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The Creative Catholic: Anthony Esolen
“Do not read a book, ever, just so that you can say clever things about it,” advises the prolific author and translator, “Read books for […]
Interview
Of fairy tales and vampires: A conversation with novelist Karen Ullo
“Redemption stories never get old,” says Ullo. “Every day in the life of every human is a story of sin and redemption.” […]
Essay
The spiritual witness of Flannery O’Connor
The question sometimes comes up: “Where should I start with Flannery O’Connor?” Perhaps the person posing the question has never read O’Connor at all. Or he might have encountered one of her widely anthologized stories […]
Interview
The Creative Catholic: John C. Wright
John C. Wright is an award-winning author of science-fiction novels and short stories whose work has appeared in numerous magazines, journals, and anthologies. He is also a practicing Catholic who has written about the intersections […]
Interview
Fiction and murder most foul: A morbid topic for Catholics?
Detective fiction and mystery novels have a long pedigree in the Catholic world. This may seem strange: Catholic and Christian authors writing about murder and crime? What’s up with that? Yet when you look at […]
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Fr. Gabriel is the newest “knight of God” in the pantheon of literary detectives
What do we love about a good mystery novel? Ever since Edgar Allan Poe invented the genre of detective fiction in 1841, mystery writers including Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, and Dean Koontz have offered […]
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Waugh’s Helena, Father General, and the reality of revelation
Evelyn Waugh’s slim and critically unappreciated novel, Helena, was something of a literary experiment for a modern master of English literature. The eponymous heroine, mother of the Emperor Constantine, talks in her youth like a […]
Interview
The mysterious, surprising, and joyful work of the novelist
Michael D. O’Brien has been working as an iconographer, painter, and writer for nearly fifty years. He is the popular author of over two dozen books, including several best-selling novels such as Father Elijah, Elijah in Jerusalem, The […]