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reviewed by Christy Isinger The Absence of Goodness is a page-turner crime novel written by Catholic Isaac Morris. The solving of an awful crime propels the plot, as does the conversion of its main character, a nun, who seeks the killer. It is a mystery that takes the unique approach of a nun as its [...]
Joseph O’Neill, whose novel Netherland is this year’s recipient of the prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award, has written a piece on Flannery O’Connor for the recent issue of The Atlantic Monthly (using Brad Gooch’s biography, Flannery: A Life, as the occasion). O’Neill describes O’Connor’s writing as “unfairly” and “wickedly” good: The narrating third person hovers in an [...]
Michael Dirda, Washington Post’s perspicacious literary critic, sets his sights on a new collection of correspondence by Graham Greene, the great Catholic novelist. He writes: His men and women are murderers, traitors, unhappy adulterous lovers, sinners of every stripe–and he doesn’t glamorize their seediness, their misery, or their desperation. Evelyn Waugh bluntly called them “charmless.” [...]
The Guardian book blog has a short but illuminating piece on the importance of Flannery O’Connor’s deeply-felt Catholicism on her work. O’Connor is on a shortlist of the best short-story writers of the twentieth century, and though her “Christ-haunted” South is peopled with Protestants, there is no question that Catholicism was her writing’s wellspring. For [...]
reviewed by Rae Stabosz This morning, for the umpteenth time, I looked on the Internet for reviews of the excellent collection of vampire stories Rivals of Dracula. I love this short story collection and want to see what others think. But today, as usual, I found nothing. As close to Nada as it gets. A [...]
(from The Thing: Why I am a Catholic, first published 1929) I see that Mr. Patrick Braybrooke and others, writing to the CATHOLIC TIMES, have raised the question of Catholic propaganda in novels written by Catholics. The very phrase, which we are all compelled to use, is awkward and even false. A Catholic putting Catholicism [...]
Reviewed by Tannia Ortiz-Lopes Infinite Space, Infinite God, edited by Karina and Rob Fabian, is an anthology of Sci-Fi stories organized in seven chapters. Each chapter begins with an explanation of some Catholic issues, with a brief summary of the stories and how the characters deal with them. It is proper to mention that the [...]
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