A Not-So-Shaggy Dog Story

by John Wilson

A novelist's pen name hides a playful detective tale. Continue Reading »

12 Jul 2019

Chimpanzee Disaster

by Hannah Niemeier

The residents of Royal, Nebraska, loved their zoo to death. Continue Reading »

13 May 2019

An Irish Dante

by Moriah Speciale

The Five Quintets by micheal o’siadhail baylor, 381 pages, $34.95 Sartre famously wrote that “hell is other people,” but for the poet Micheal O’Siadhail, hell is a highly specific group of other people. Among the damned are Franz Kafka, Karl Marx, and—you guessed it—a certain . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2019

Wendell Berry Goes to School

by John Murdock

If Baker and Bilbro succeed, students and professors will emerge believing that the goal is not to obtain a “good job” far away but to become a rooted, whole person. Continue Reading »

17 Sep 2018

Sex, Fear, and Idolatry

by Angela Franks

R. Marie Griffith's work is well researched, but conceptually thin. Continue Reading »

14 Aug 2018

The Job of Ultimate Observer

by John Wilson

The world is out there, and it's our job to go out and discover it. Continue Reading »

3 Aug 2018

The View from Here Is Glory

by Daniel Rattelle

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

A Touching and Feeling Faith

by Lauren Rae Konkol

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