Laura Esquivel’s 1989 novel Like Water for Chocolate (Doubleday) captured the public imagination with its story of cuisine prepared with such emotion that...
Arts & Culture
Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.
“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...
I came in on my knees,” Marshall McLuhan wrote of his conversion to Catholicism. “That is the only way in.” The celebrated 20th-century media theorist was a...
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...
Nothing’s About to Happen to Me Mitski (Dead Oceans, 2026) The cover of singer-songwriter Mitski’s new album, Nothing’s About to Happen to Me, features the...
How does the world see Bernadette Soubirous, also known as St. Bernadette of Lourdes? With a new musical about her touring the United States after a successful...
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...
