May 22nd, 2007
This blog, as you know, largely focuses on Catholicism and the Arts, particularly literature. Indeed, I have an almost constitutional (if you’ll forgive the pun) aversion to contemporary politics—see my 2004 Godspy piece, “Holding My Nose in November”; but it looks as though there might just be one candidate out there with whom I might [...]
March 20th, 2007
…but about faith, interestingly enough, or at least about the intersection of faith and politics and culture. The blog was started last fall by Sally Quinn, the (atheist) widow of renowned WP editor Ben Bradlee, most famous for his role in the exposure of the Watergate scandal. Here’s the article.
One of the more interesting [...]
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale
Joan of Arc: A Life (Penguin Lives) by Mary Gordon
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Mary loomed large in that springtime of art and letters, the Renaissance; she was to have no less an influence on artists in the ‘Second Spring’.
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