Laura Esquivel’s 1989 novel Like Water for Chocolate (Doubleday) captured the public imagination with its story of cuisine prepared with such emotion that...
Books and literature
Catholic book reviews, author interviews, and reflections on literature, faith, and culture. Dive into thoughtful Catholic perspectives on literature.
Convent Wisdom By Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita (Simon & Schuster, 2025) Since I find inspiration in the devotion and ministry of women religious, I was...
In Thomas of Celano’s book The Remembrance of the Desire of a Soul, which was completed in 1247, Francis and a companion were traveling when they came upon...
Not every love story is a romance. Some love stories—the ones rooted in reality and humanity—are also stories of the cultural fissures in a particular historic...
How quickly we’ve forgotten the early days of the COVID pandemic: the fear, the rising death toll, the uncertainty, the international lockdown, the suffocating...
When an addiction recovery sponsor told journalist, playwright, and screenwriter Julia Cameron that her sobriety depended on returning to the practices and...
Discipline By Randa Abdel-Fattah (University of Queensland Press, 2025) Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Discipline takes place in Sydney, Australia over a few days in...
The Way of Dante By Richard Hughes Gibson (InterVarsity Press, 2025) Around the middle of the twentieth century, three English writers—C. S. Lewis, Dorothy L...
Meeting the Enemy By Kevin J. O’Brien (Fortress Press, 2025) Some faith groups have called for fossil fuel divestment as a way to stifle climate change. But...
Jamall Calloway is an assistant professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Georgetown. Genesis and Job are probably my two favorite...
