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A last and marvelous encore from The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson

February 2, 2021 Edward Short 0

In his incomparable biography of Samuel Johnson, Boswell recounts that while the poet, critic, essayist, and lexicographer was researching his Lives of the Poets (1781), the last of his great literary projects, “the tranquility of […]

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Shakespeare in the Age of Intersectionality

June 20, 2019 Titus Techera 2

It used to seem vulgar that something like Shakespeare in Love (1998) could win the Best Picture Oscar. It didn’t have anything to do with Shakespeare, really, and was essentially just another romantic comedy, with […]

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“Loosing the Lion”: Why the “underdog” Gospel is a model for preachers and a rollicking good ride

January 30, 2018 Carl E. Olson 9

“Mark’s is a Gospel of secrecy, of mystery,” says Dr. Leroy Huizenga, author of a new commentary on the Gospel of Mark, “and so one […]

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Bishop Boyea: “We need to learn far more than we need to teach in this area.”

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The National Catholic Register reports on “comments and objections raised by several bishops” at the USCCB meeting in Atlanta that “challenged the specificity of some heavily publicized statements”, such as Bishop Blair’s criticisms in April […]

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