Matthew Brennan begins his critical study of Dana Gioia’s work by quoting Robert McPhillips’s assertion that Gioia is “the leading poet-critic of his generation.” McPhillips is the author of The New Formalism and Gioia has […]
Nathaniel Delaney, the protagonist of Michael D. O’Brien’s Plague Journal—the third novel in a sequence of seven entitled Children of the Last Days—is the editor of a small-town newspaper in British Columbia when the novel […]
Between 1996 and 2017, Alfred Regnery and a friend made 11 pilgrimages, starting with one to Mount Athos in Greece and concluding with another in Greece along the Via Egnatia, which St. Paul had traveled […]
The Catholic Writer Today and Other Essays is not your typical essay collection. The title essay explicates the theme. The pieces that follow — two of which are written exchanges with Robert Lance Snyder and […]
In a 1985 article in the New York Times titled “One Too Many for the Muse,” J. Anthony Lukas noted that “an exhaustive roster of literary scrooders would be too long to publish here.” He […]
James Matthew Wilson’s intriguing and intricate new collection of poetry begins with an epigraph in which James George Frazer, author of The Golden Bough, suggests that the Jewish festival Purim, with its destruction of an […]
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