Prayers amidst Parodies and Empty Praisesongs – By Luke Johnson
Luke Johnson on Jay Hopler and Kimberly Johnson, Before the Door of God: An Anthology of Devotional Poetry I never lost as much but twice,
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Fiction & Poetry
Mary Flannery, Green and Golden – By Bryan Giemza
Bryan Giemza on Flannery O’Connor’s A Prayer Journal If A Prayer Journal were our only window into Flannery O’Connor’s thoughts in her early twenties, what
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Meaning and Mystery and Love – By Alissa Wilkinson
Alissa Wilkinson on Andre Dubus III’s Dirty Love Andre Dubus III has made a career of exploring the lives of people on the margins.
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Place, Community, Kindness — and the Occasional Rage – By Thom Satterlee
Thom Satterlee on Wendell Berry’s This Day: New & Collected Sabbath Poems In the mid-1960s, after completing a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from
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How Flannery O’Connor and Cormac McCarthy Helped to Invent the South – By Nick Ripatrazone
Nick Ripatrazone on Bryan Giemza’s Irish Catholic Writers and the Invention of the American South In “Parker’s Back,” the titular character decides to get
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