Alice McDermott

Alice McDermott is the author of, among other books, Absolution and Charming Billy. Her tenth novel, Herself, Of Course, will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2027.

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

Article

Redeemed from Death?

By Alice McDermott

April 22, 2013

Religious Life

Secularism and Modernity

Spirituality

Religious Life

Secularism and Modernity

Article

Revelation

By Alice McDermott

November 29, 2010

Feature

I Am Awake

By Alice McDermott

July 17, 2009

Fiction

Article

I Am Awake

By Alice McDermott

July 13, 2009

Fiction

Article

Confessions of a Reluctant Catholic

The heart knows the rightness of its yearning for eternal life; the heart, in its persistent desire for redemption, understands the power of God’s love.

By Alice McDermott

June 17, 2004