Trevor Cribben Merrill

The Mystery of Vocation: Katy Carl’s “As Earth Without Water”

Katy Carl’s debut novel is structured like a mountain path that rises steeply by switching back, at times moving closer to the...

The Beha Option

Flannery O’Connor; Walker Percy; J.F. Powers: young Catholic novelists may dream of joining the pantheon of 20th century greats, openly Catholic, yet...

Joshua Hren’s In The Wine Press: ‘Not for Radical Autonomy But For Communion and Transcendence’

In a recent essay Joseph Bottum pins the novel’s decline less on screens and social media than on metaphysical flatness. Much contemporary...

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