We've just posted our May 6 issue [1] to the website, featuring Nicholas Clifford's in-depth look into the multiple careers of the Roman Catholic Belgian-Australian writer, essayist, literary critic, translator, art historian, sinologist, and university professor Simon Leys [2], as well as William Pritchard's essay on the new two-hundred-page edition of T.S. Eliot [3]'s Collected Poems .

Mollie Wilson O'Reilly writes that the character Ramona Quimby [4] reveals what children's author Beverly Cleary knows about growing up. Reflecting on two recent Notre Dame graduations, Cathleen Kaveny poses a new way forward for Democratic and Republican Catholics [5] beyond partisan culture wars. Rand Richards Cooper reviews the military drama starring Helen Mirren, Eye in the Sky [6].

For books, John T. McGreevy reviews two new books by Sudhir Hazareesingh and David Bell [7] that incorporate American views into the twentieth-century struggles between republicans and Catholics in France over "basic freedoms"; Paul Lakeland reviews Sarah Bakewell [8]’s latest work which scrutinizes (mostly French) existentialist philosophers both as thinkers and as "human beings marked by their moment in history"; Dominic Preziosi reviews Don DeLillo [9]'s upcoming novel—a futuristic yet familiar story of filial conflinct and mortality—Zero K; Kathleen Sprows Cummings reviews a providentially-written, full-length biography of Joan Chittester by Tom Roberts; [10] And Gilbert Meilaender reviews George M. Marsden [11]'s "biography of a book"—C.S. Lewis's radio-broadcast-turned-religious-classic Mere Christianity.

See the full table of contents here. [12]