Talking Race: Community Over Conflict

Talking Race: Community Over Conflict

All One in Christ: A Catholic Critique of Racism and Critical Race Theory By Edward Feser. Ignatius Press, 2022. Paperback, 163 pages, $17.95. Reviewed by William H. Rooney. In All One in Christ: A Catholic Critique of Racism and Critical Race Theory, philosopher...
Much More than a Decadent

Much More than a Decadent

Lionel Johnson: Poetry and Prose Edited by Robert Asch. Saint Austin Press, 2021. Hardcover, 544 pages, $39.90. “And who shall say, that to know the great Masters is not the first necessity of an artist? Yet we might think, that a true man of letters would...
Beauty Is the Friendly Voice of God

Beauty Is the Friendly Voice of God

Unearthly Beauty: The Aesthetics of St John Henry Newman by Guy Nicholls. Gracewing, 2019. Hardcover, 352 pages, $36. Reviewed by Daniel James Sundahl It’s good to note at the beginning here that the Rev. Dr. Guy Nicholls is a priest at the Birmingham Oratory and...
Prin’s Original Fictions

Prin’s Original Fictions

Original Prin: A Novel by Randy Boyagoda. Biblioasis, 2019. Paperback, 224 pages, $15. Reviewed by Joshua Hren Toward the end of Original Prin our protagonist Princely St. John Umbiligoda sifts through the Duty-Free shop in the Dragomans airport only to find the...
From New York to Chartres with La Farge

From New York to Chartres with La Farge

By Stephen Schmalhofer Sixteen days before Willa Cather died she wrote to Sigrid Undset lamenting “the strange deterioration in human beings” evident in the desire of seemingly every American “to want to live in New York City, drink cocktails, and wear outrageous...