Article Bookmarks How to write about the lives of women? In three recent books, formal inventiveness mirrors the idiosyncrasies of the very biographies they narrateBy Anthony DomesticoJanuary 11, 2019 Nonfiction Fiction Poetry
Article Christmas Critics Smart reading suggestions for the 2018 holiday seasonBy The EditorsDecember 25, 2018 Books Fiction Nonfiction Poetry Spirituality Movies
Article A Literary Omnivore’s Dilemma When it comes to reading, I am widely, not indiscriminately, enthusiastic. Winnowing down the list to just the titles below has been a challengeBy Anthony DomesticoDecember 22, 2018 Fiction Nonfiction Poetry
Article Poem | Eventual Surface I wonder: Did the denizens of the West, / aware and otherwise, feel / the weight of hundreds, yearsBy John ZedolikDecember 17, 2018 Poetry
Article Under a Watchful Gaze For expatriate poet A.E. Stallings, selfhood is always relational. It’s not what we see that makes us who we are, but rather what sees usBy Anthony DomesticoDecember 15, 2018 Poetry Art Social Justice Immigration
Article Merton & Blake, Revisited Thomas Merton and William Blake were unorthodox religious visionaries, joined by a shared predilection for the paradoxes at the heart of ChristianityBy Michael W. HigginsDecember 8, 2018 Art Poetry Spirituality Religious Life
PoliticsSuiting Up for Team Racist Bishop Stowe spoke up about the racism of Donald Trump’s MAGA campaign, and spoke the simple truth. Let’s hope it’s the start of a trendBy Mollie Wilson O'ReillyFebruary 7, 2019
ReligionNarrowing the Universal Church Recent debates in higher education over who counts as an “authentic Catholic” have the unintended effect of splintering the universal Body of ChristBy Julia G. YoungFebruary 6, 2019
CultureSomewhere Else Mammon can never be God. We need ways of valuing ourselves and our neighbors that are not indexed to the marketBy Ian Marcus CorbinFebruary 10, 2019
BooksSurviving Survivalism Westover tells the story of her soul, not her accomplishments. Becoming an individual through paideia, she discovers herself as a relational beingBy Mike St. ThomasFebruary 1, 2019
CollectionsWhy We Came. Why We Left. Why We Stay. The Catholic faith is first of all a gift, one a person must choose to keep; the days of Catholicism by default are behind us By The EditorsDecember 3, 2018
