By Mary Christine Athans (Orbis, 2013) This scholarly study is a valuable contribution to the body of works aimed at finding Miriam of...
Arts & Culture
Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.
Camera Obscura (4AD, 2013) Beauty is worth waiting for, as is joy. The Scottish band Camera Obscura’s magnificent album My Maudlin Career was released to...
By Garry Wills (Viking, 2013) One of the church’s most noted inside critics, historian Garry Wills, shows no signs of slowing at nearly 80 years old. In...
By Faythe Levine & Sam Macon (Radar Studios, 2013) A commercial building in my neighborhood recently underwent renovations to transform the space into a...
Here are some interesting new book releases: June 2013: Imitating Mary: Ten Marian Virtues for the Modern Mom By Marge Fenelon In her book Imitating Mary (Ave...
By Anne Lamott (Riverhead Books, 2012) Leave it to Anne Lamott to take something that feels overwhelming, then put it on our plates and cut it up for us into...
By Paula Fredriksen (Princeton, 2012) While it sounds a daunting task to explore the shifting Christian idea of sin as it progressed through the first four...
Jim James (ATO Records, 2013) Kentucky rock outfit My Morning Jacket made its name in the early 2000s off its signature brew of country and psychedelic rock...
Directed by Pablo Larraín (Sony Pictures, 2012) Topple a dictator with a rainbow and a jingle? Lash back against oppression with candy-coated images and...
Here are some interesting new book releases for May: May 2013 Fleeing Herod: A Journey Through Coptic Egypt with the Holy Family By James Cowan After Jesus was...
