C.M. Howell is a theologian, author, and musician. In 1970, at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, country artist Johnny Cash recorded his friend Kris...
Arts & Culture
Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.
The Things I Didn’t Say Xania Monet (Hallwood Media, 2026) Around a decade ago, much hubbub was being raised about the “fake artists” that were sneaking their...
A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing By Alice Evelyn Yang (William Morrow, 2026) In Alice Evelyn Yang’s debut novel, the nightmares of the past keep their grip on...
Toward the end of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, Odysseus (played by Matt Damon) utters a despairing line clearly influenced by a Talmudic aphorism that’s...
The Seagull on the Chapel By Eric A. Clayton and Shannon K. Evans, illustrated by Angela Edmonds (Paraclete Press, 2026) Only recently did I learn that two of...
The Harbingers Created by Gabriel Urbina (Audacious Machine Creative, 2026) What would you do if magic were real? This is the central question that animates...
Laura Esquivel’s 1989 novel Like Water for Chocolate (Doubleday) captured the public imagination with its story of cuisine prepared with such emotion that...
“She had an insane experience where she wanted to die and decided to devote her life to something [after], and then other people came in and were a part of it...
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...
