“Among the Dangs”
by John WilsonJohn Wilson discusses American fiction of the ’50s and ’60s. Continue Reading »
Little Books of the Prairie
by Ramona TauszPrairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by caroline fraser metropolitan, 640 pages, $35 The Little House Books by laura ingalls wilder edited by caroline fraser library of america, 1,490 pages, $75 In 1937, during one of the few public appearances of her career, a . . . . Continue Reading »
The Catholic Novel: A Footnote
by John WilsonWhat follows is a historical footnote on the Catholic fiction debate.
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The View from Here Is Glory
by Daniel RattelleJoshua Hren's new collection of stories, This Our Exile, presents an authentically Catholic fiction. Continue Reading »
Big Mullah
by Randy Boyagoda2084: The End of the World by boualem sansal translated by alison anderson europa editions, 240 pages, $17 Sleep soundly, good people, everything is sheer falsehood, and the rest is under control.” So begins Boualem Sansal’s new novel, 2084. The author, an Algerian secularist, has . . . . Continue Reading »
He Went There
by John LukacsHe was not a refugee, not an immigrant, not a displaced person. Or, rather: yes and no. When he and I became close friends, he once said to me: “Sometimes Americans ask, ‘When did you come to this country?’ I did not come to America; I went there.” And if he was asked . . . . Continue Reading »
Alice’s Oxford
by Peter HitchensThe new Oxford, with its fair share of Starbucks and burger joints, is far more convenient than the old—but it is not such a good place in which to think and imagine. Continue Reading »
Angelic Monster
by David Bentley HartUnderneath the searing fevers of Léon Bloy’s prose lay a man of sincere compassion and incorruptible integrity. Continue Reading »
What the Novelist Knows
by Piers Paul ReadThe novelist and diarist Julien Green described in his diary a conversation he had with a French priest, a Fr. Couturier, about the novelist’s necessary complicity with evil: If he is a believer, the difficulty begins when he sits down at his table to write, for he is obliged to become each one of . . . . Continue Reading »
Write Away
by Randy BoyagodaThe most electrifying reading experience I’ve had this past year came 656 pages into Donna Tartt’s recent novel, The Goldfinch. A twenty-first-century young American’s adventure story, its action moves from wealthy Manhattan to Great Recession–era Las Vegas to decadent high-end European . . . . Continue Reading »
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