The Real Way to Build Back Better
Let Us Begin: Saint Francis’s Way of Becoming Like Christ and Renewing the World By Thomas Griffin. Our Sunday Visitor, 2024. Paperback, 168 pages, $18.95. Reviewed by David G. Bonagura, Jr. The New Deal. The Great Society. No Child Left Behind. Build Back Better. The...
Gerald Russello: The Man Who Did It All
November 7, 2024, marked the third anniversary of long-time Bookman editor Gerald Russello (1971-2021). This week he was honored with the publication of his most representative essays and reviews. How Do You Do It? The Selected Works of Gerald Russello is now...
Swimming in the Secular Fishbowl
Practicing Christians, Practical Atheists: How Cultural Liturgies and Everyday Social Practices Shape the Christian Life By Phil Davignon. Cascade Books, 2023. Paperback, 158 pages, $22. Reviewed by David G. Bonagura, Jr. What are the biggest factors driving...
Mysteries Require Odes, Not Emails
The Saint Mary’s Book of Christian Verse Chosen and Introduced by Edward Short. Foreword by Dana Gioia. Gracewing, 2022. Paperback, 412 pages, $25. Reviewed by David G. Bonagura, Jr. In a technocratic and materialist age, an individual or institution’s attitude toward...
Ah, just your typical 663-page light summer beach read for a @ubookman book review. Makes Wealth of Nations look like a Substack essay.