Catholic Fiction

reviewed by John Murphy
Pagan Goddess…or Vague and Godless?
I first encountered Kate Chopin’s New Orleans-set novella, The Awakening, in a course on twentieth-century literature. I recall a sense of gratitude to the author for her book’s merciful brevity. The Awakening was on the curriculum because of the proto-feminist implications of the storyline. Quick summary (warning: spoilers […]

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reviewed by John Murphy
The Sacred and the Profane
A Month of Sundaysgives the initial impression of being a tossed-off trifle, as if a bit of Updike’s light verse had grown fat and sassy, full-bellied, and was given room to stretch like a self-satisfied cat on a windowsill. Updike, already a luminary of American letters by the […]

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