Alice McDermott is the author of nine novels. Her latest is Absolution, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2023.
Article Wives of the Saints Was it any wonder she had been chosen for this task? She was meant for the stage. By Alice McDermott November 18, 2024 Commonweal Centennial Fiction Women in the Church
Article Why Not Women? The all-male priesthood of the Catholic Church has become an outward sign of inner corruption. By Alice McDermott April 23, 2024 Priesthood Women in the Church Religion
Article Things Objects in a novel or story are created, chosen, and hand-delivered by the author, and as such they all quiver with meaning. By Alice McDermott August 7, 2021 Fiction Books The Last Word
Article A Short Story by Alice McDermott ‘There is a hunger. It was a lesson she had learned and then forgotten across the years...’ An excerpt from Alice McDermott’s forthcoming novel By Alice McDermott July 7, 2017 Fiction Books
Article Desired Things Twice on this trip home to Virginia, Douglas had drifted toward a wrong exit and now she had the wheel. She suspected he was more hung over than he admitted. By Alice McDermott October 27, 2016 Fiction
Article You Will Be Missed What kind of people don’t see their only sibling for years, then show up at her husband’s funeral? What kind of Irish joke are you? By Alice McDermott December 8, 2014 Fiction
