Editor’s Note: T.M. Doran is a professor of engineering at Lawrence Technological University, but in recent years he has also managed to become one of
Flannery O’Connor; Walker Percy; J.F. Powers: young Catholic novelists may dream of joining the pantheon of 20th century greats, openly Catholic, yet acknowledged by the
In a recent essay Joseph Bottum pins the novel’s decline less on screens and social media than on metaphysical flatness. Much contemporary fiction either inhabits
Who is Alice McDermott? She is or has been: a professor at Johns Hopkins University; a wife, the mother of three children; one of
Martin Scorsese’s 2016 film version of Silence drew renewed scrutiny to the famed Catholic Japanese novelist Shusaku Endo: Were Endo and Scorsese attempting to applaud
Editors Note: Anne Redmon is another very fine–great or near-great Catholic novelist you probably have never heard of. At CatholicArtsToday.com we live for these discoveries:
The original Catholic Literary Revival began in the mid-19 century upon the conversion of Blessed John Henry Newman and lasted until the death of Graham Greene
“Cecilia Jane and I lived in a studio across the street from a man now known as a serial killer,” says the narrator of “Control,”
Say you’re an aspiring novelist: Irish Catholic, with roots in the Northeast. You attend a Fordham conference on the Catholic Literary Imagination. Pulsating literary stars
Christopher Beha is a 38-year-old novelist and a former editor at Harper’s Magazine. To get a sense of his talent and his themes, consider this
