Jay Farrar, Jim James, et al. (Rounder Records, 2012) When the American folk icon Woody Guthrie died in 1967, he left behind reams of song lyrics but no music...
Arts & Culture
Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.
By Joan Chittister (Eerdmans, 2011) Joan Chittister’s admirers take up her books expecting to draw from a well of wisdom and insight. They approach a writer of...
By Timothy Matovina (Princeton University Press, 2012) Thirty-one years ago a Fides/Claretian book from the publishers who bring you this magazine chronicled...
April 2012: Simple Faith: Moving Beyond Religion As You Know It to Grow in Your Relationship with God By Margaret Silf Review: As we mature through life, all...
By Eamon Duffy (Yale University Press, 2011) Quick, can you name 10 popes off the top of your head? OK, maybe you can, but how about explaining the difference...
By Brian Doyle (ACTA Publications, 2011) Brian Doyle must have been listening intently when poet Mary Oliver proclaimed, “Attentiveness is the beginning of all...
Chuck Prophet (Yep Roc, 2012) Chuck Prophet has been known in the alt-rock world since the mid-1980s when he signed on as chief guitar-slinger for a great alt...
For most of the 20th century, movies and television have cast gay and lesbian characters as deviant bad guys. But as attitudes in the larger public change, so...
March 2012: Between Heaven and Mirth: Why Joy, Humor, and Laughter Are at the Heart of the Spiritual Life By James Martin, S.J. Review: If you ever got in...
Directed by Stephen Daldry (Paramount, 2011) Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2005 novel about a 9-year-old boy whose father is killed on 9/11 angered and touched a lot...
