Low (Sub Pop Records, 2013) The release of a new Low album often feels like an unexpected gift. Not that all of their albums are unqualified masterpieces, but...
Arts & Culture
Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.
Directed by Gus Van Sant (Focus Features, 2013) The film Promised Land asks the question: Who is the bad guy? Is it the big, greedy company that wants to...
Edited by Catherine Wolff (HarperOne, 2013) Before passing by yet another collection of “Catholic writers on X” in your real or virtual book...
By Joe Paprocki (Loyola Press, 2013) How many of us endured years of boring religious education classes trying to stay awake and engaged? How many of our...
Here are some interesting new book releases for March: March 2013 I wasn’t dead when I wrote this: Advice given in the nick of time By Lisa-Marie Calderone...
Directed by Michael Haneke (2012, Austria) A pigeon flies through an open window of an elderly couple’s apartment. An aging piano teacher, partially...
Here are some interesting new book releases: February 2013: Growing in Love and Wisdom: Tibetan Buddhist Sources for Christian Meditation By Susan J. Stabile...
By Fr. Dominic Garramone, O.S.B. (Reedy Press, 2012) Never trust anyone on a no-bread diet. Anyone who has given up such a culinary staple should be approached...
By Michael W. Higgins and Kevin Burns (Paulist, 2012) Radio producer Kevin Burns writes that he remembers thinking of best-selling author Henri Nouwen as...
Directed by Nikolaj Arcel (Magnolia Pictures, 2012) Danish director Nikolaj Arcel’s historical romance, nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language...
