January 2017

'Manchester' captures the drift and flow of daily life and conveys its pungent poetry. Denzel Washington brings August Wilson’s 'Fences' to the screen with skill.

Framed & mounted on the wall, a dolphin’s stomach, splayed: / inside, plastic bags, bottle caps, condoms, broken ...

Suffering changes how you read poetry. That lesson came home to me in a profound way when I taught John Milton’s Sonnet 19.

Not unlike the young adults for whom it is written, 'How I Stayed Catholic at Harvard' seems unsure of its identity.

Building a Catholic university is simple, argues John Garvey: a majority of its faculty must be Catholic. But executing that plan is harder, says Mark W. Roche.

Luke Timothy Johnson reviews important theological books from 2016, including works by Robert Giroux, Thomas Merton, Raïssa Maritain, Miroslav Volf & Rodney Stark.

On John R. Bowlin’s account, the tolerant know when the act of toleration is the virtuous response to difference and when it is a mere semblance of the virtue.

In his new book, Kenneth Woodward opines on his journalistic career covering the ideas and personalities that drove not only religion, but the culture at large.