Finding Faith in Fiction

Finding Faith in Fiction

Wondrous Reading: Encountering the Catholic Faith in Children’s Literature By LuElla D’Amico. Cascade Books, 2025. Paperback, 162 pages, $23. Reviewed by Christine Norvell. A Presbyterian minister told me that many of the young parents in her inner city church...
The Liturgical Key to Tolkien

The Liturgical Key to Tolkien

The High Hallow: Tolkien’s Liturgical Imagination By Ben Reinhard. Emmaus Road Publishing, 2025. Hardcover, 184 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Benjamin J. Volpe. “My living room bookcase has an entire shelf filled with Tolkien’s works and works commenting on Tolkien’s...
To Find Eyes to See

To Find Eyes to See

More Than a Matter of Taste: The Moral Imagination and the Spirit of Literature By Joshua Hren. Word on Fire Luminor, 2026. Paperback, 392 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Nadya Williams. The year after Euripides died (406 BC), Athenian theater-goers who flocked to see...
The Midwestern Gothic Stories of Eric Cyr

The Midwestern Gothic Stories of Eric Cyr

Here It Snows in June & Other Stories By Eric Cyr. Wiseblood Books, 2026. Paperback, 156 pages, $16. Reviewed by Nadya Williams. A driver on I-71 who takes the exit toward Ashland, Ohio, my home now for nearly three years, will be greeted with an oversized welcome...
Yearning and Collapsing

Yearning and Collapsing

Blue Walls Falling Down By Joshua Hren Angelico Press, 2024. Paperback, 436 pages, $22.95. Reviewed by David G. Bonagura, Jr.  Can love reconcile America’s partisan divide between left and right, between racially obsessed identity politics and radicalized nativist...