October 2014

"I felt that I had spent quite enough time in a classroom and should find a real life."

Despite optimistic hopes for a new “democracy of opinion,” what is more like a new anarchy of opinion has not overcome public skepticism.

I want my boys to keep believing there’s nothing they can’t do—but not only because they happen to be boys.

I, too, see God adumbrations, I, too, write / a book on love. Who, here, appears, to touch the skin. / Hundreds of thousands of square miles of lost...

We lived in the long intolerable called God. / We seemed happy. // I don’t mean content I mean heroin happy, / donkey dentures...

The fact is: In this discouraging book, the future looks bad for just about every flavor of Catholic.

Alain de Botton highlights journalism’s function in shaping how we see and experience the world.

Almost every poem in Joshua Mehigan's collection contains a striking formal moment, where he uses meter or rhyme or line break to do something surprising.

Since the Synod of Bishops was instituted in 1965, no pope has ever begun an assembly’s first working session with an address like the one Pope Francis gave.