Mother, Creature, Kin By Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder (Broadleaf Books, 2025) “How’s Mom doing?” When I was pregnant, every nurse or doctor seemed to ask this...
Arts & Culture
Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.
The high walls of writer Andriana Trigiani’s Greenwich Village home are lined with books of all shapes, sizes, and titles. It’s like a small-town library, but...
Bono, the lead singer for Irish rock band U2, has been an inescapable pop cultural presence for at least 40 years. At first U2 was a bit of a man-bites-dog...
A Prince of a Boy: How One Gay Catholic Helped Change the World By Brian McNaught (Cascade Books, 2025) When Brian McNaught publicly affirmed that he is gay...
Philip Kolin’s new poetry collection, Evangeliaries (Angelico Press) is a tribute to the power of scripture and the Christian tradition to awaken the...
Strange little beasts inhabit the margins of medieval manuscripts. In the famous Luttrell Psalter, a man-bird hybrid grabs a floral border as his bird half...
Alan Sparhawk with Trampled by Turtles Alan Sparhawk & Trampled by Turtles (Sub Pop, 2025) On November 5, 2022, Mimi Parker died. Singer, songwriter, and...
If God Were a Great Big Bear By Paul Harbridge, Illustrated by Marta Dorado (Beaming Books, 2025) “God is in me? And you? And the kitten?” My 3-year-old found...
A nation with crumbling infrastructure and climate change-induced natural disasters. Civil unrest and violence fueled by a growing gap between the rich and the...
