The atmosphere of moral agony in Eye in the Sky reflects standard-issue Hollywood sentimentality. Politically, it offers Americans moral justification for drone war.
Marsden’s “biography of a book” traces the development of ‘Mere Christianity’ from a series of BBC radio talks into a religious “antidote for the attention to self.”
A full-length biography was on the minds of neither the author nor the subject met. But Roberts asked Chittister about her personal life. They began at the beginning
In two new books, Hazareesingh and Bell incorporate American views into the 20th century struggles between republicans and Catholics in France over “basic freedoms”
Sarah Bakewell’s latest work subjects (mostly French) existentialist philosophers to scrutiny both as thinkers and as human beings marked by their moment in history.
Lurking beneath the main concerns of ‘Zero K’ is a story of filial conflict, though moving portrayals of interpersonal relationships are not exactly DeLillo’s thing.
Beverly Cleary captures a child’s perspective in a way that is totally convincing and never condescending, and feels authentic even several decades on.
Simon Leys’s Catholic sensibility is never insistent, and never descends into preachiness. As he said of Confucius, sometimes it can be better to stay silent.
Some conservatives tend to confuse fidelity with a one-size-fits-all legalism. If there’s one thing you can say about Pope Francis, it’s that he’s no legalist.
Reflecting on the two Notre Dame graduations clearly reveals that the latest rounds of the culture wars have sputtered to an end—and that we need a new way forward.
Around the dining room table, paisanas from the old country cut and wove strips of palm into intricate crosses and flowers, and Grandpa, eyes shining, told stories.
