A S H Smyth, Author at Catholic Herald

A S H Smyth

March 01, 2023

Orpheus Builds a Girl Heather Parry Gallic Books, £16.99, 320 pages The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled, quoth The Usual Suspects’ Verbal Kint, was convincing the world he didn’t exist. But Gabriela Madrigal has seen him. Or seen one, anyway. “A banal and common evil” – she thinks – “wrapping [himself] in the language

America’s military complex

June 28, 2022

Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War by Phil Klay Penguin, $27, 272 pages Leaving the Marine Corps in 2009 to embark on an instantly successful writing career, Phil Klay “envisioned [his] task primarily as making sense of the past”. He discovered quickly that it was not the past. Six years later,

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