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...
Arts & Culture
Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.
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...
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...
