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The Time of Our Lives
For the past eight years, since our first grandchild was born in Boston, my husband and I have driven the 800 mile round trip every month or two—to share in her childhood and then her little sister’s as well. To help the miles go by during the long trip, we usually get from the library a book on tape (lately, more likely a CD)....
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The State of Catholic Letters, Part IV: Generations Lost...and Found
As I wrap up this series on the state of Catholic letters, I’d like to make a few final distinctions and then name some of the writers I think should be more widely known and discussed within the Church in North America. I’ve thrown down what I think is a friendly, if frisky, challenge to traditionalist Catholics, urging them to reject the myth of decline that says our time is somehow more inhospitable to imaginative writing informed by faith when compared to some former era....
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Who’s the Greatest One of All?
I am skeptical of any attempt to gauge the greatness of a literary artist when the criteria being considered are not directly related to literature. The recent passing of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has provided some fodder for skepticism....
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Good Art, Bad Art, Faith and Doubt
As America magazine’s June 23-30 issue pointed out, it was extraordinary to find The New Yorker’s summer fiction issue (June 9 & 16) devoted so prominently to God, including a series of short reflections collectively entitled “Faith and Doubt.”
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The Burthen of the Mystery
On my first night of class in doctoral school, our Literary Theory professor asked us to go around the table and introduce ourselves, including our favorite authors and our reasons for continuing our graduate studies in English....
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Memoir by Lauren Winner, Poetry by James Harpur, Art by Guy Chase and Adrian Wiszniewski
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