Book review

The View from Here Is Glory

Joshua Hren's new collection of stories, This Our Exile, presents an authentically Catholic fiction. Continue Reading »

22 May 2018

The Cosmic Gamemaker

by Kevin Jackson

People are changed by and through relationships of love—with God and with each other. Continue Reading »

3 May 2018

The prosperity gospel—which declares that God’s grace is manifest in gold faucets, private jets, and multimillion-dollar homes—has no answer for the countless agonies of earthly life. Continue Reading »

19 Apr 2018

We Renounce the Old World

by Charles J. Chaput

James Nolan's What they Saw in America considers four foreigners' perspectives on the United States: Tocqueville, Max Weber, Chesterton, and Sayyid Qutb. Continue Reading »

27 Mar 2018

Bros Against Humanity

by Justin Lee

In Silicon Valley, women are subject to appalling amounts of sexual harassment. Continue Reading »

22 Feb 2018

Death and Dappled Hope

by Leah Libresco Sargeant

Preparing for death is the fullest expression of caring for our loved ones on earth—a truth that Joe Biden’s memoir sadly seems to miss. Continue Reading »

13 Feb 2018

Mary McCarthy’s Clarity

by Richard T. Whittington

Mary McCarthy's caustic wit and command of language elevated her nonfiction to the first rank. Continue Reading »

30 Jan 2018

Work Is a Four-Letter Word

by Eve Tushnet

Kayla Rae Whitaker’s debut novel about two cartoonists, The Animators, asks whether the overexamined life is worth living. Continue Reading »

13 Dec 2017

Rambling Shambling Brian Doyle

by Matthew Hennessey

If Brian Doyle's style was unconventional, it was also unique and it was also good, which is the main thing. Continue Reading »

6 Nov 2017

Exit Neoliberalism

by Jude Russo

In Mohsin Hamid's novel Exit West, social leftism, direct democracy, and financial capital are victorious over the dark forces of nationalism and economic-political inequality. Continue Reading »

2 Nov 2017

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