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He peppered his homilies, talks and even encyclicals with literary references from Dostoyevsky, Proust, Hopkins, Dante and ...
President Trump’s cultural agenda is reminiscent of a Stalin-esque playbook to some. Others say it’s a needed correction to ...
Convenience stores, ice and whisky first came as U.S. imports. Then, they were reinvented.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was not a favorite of America's editors for many years, but they all read 'Gatsby.' Everyone reads ...
Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel, Edwin Frank explores how reality has been presented and even transformed through the ...
At the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, you are guaranteed to find the following: a signed first edition of your ...
A number of years ago, an America editor was asked by his colleagues for his final thoughts upon his retirement from the magazine. “I’m not quite sure why I should retire,” he said.
“We don’t have to accept patterns of oppression and violence that seem so rooted and ingrained in our culture. Our faith, however small, can uproot these old destructive patterns and replace ...
“Cabrini,” about the American saint, was a terrific film; this critic didn’t see “Song of Freedom” because, lacking a professional obligation, he avoids features about child sex-traffickin ...