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In the darkness, a home: Cormac McCarthy’s Catholic center

June 24, 2023 James Watson, Ph.D. 8

Years ago, in the midst of a doctoral program, as my wife and I were expecting our third son, I took a seminar devoted entirely to the novels of Cormac McCarthy. The Road (2006) had […]

Beyond Kristin Lavransdatter: Sigrid Undset as convert, intellectual, reader of hearts

August 23, 2022 Rachel Hoover Canto 4

Sigrid Undset (1882-1949) is most famous for her award-winning Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy. But she wrote much more than that epic work of historical fiction. Sigrid Undset: Reader of Hearts, a new biography and study of […]