Bored, bored, bored … That’s been my coronavirus experience. Luckily, I’ve avoided the plague. But I’ve been thrown on my own inner resources – and found them woefully inadequate. I’ve tiled the tiny floor of my boiler cupboard – badly. I’ve framed two pictures – badly – and hung them in my flat. I’ve read
The Cactus League By Emily Nemens Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 288pp, £20.99/$27 Many readers will be drawn to Emily Nemens’s first novel because of her day job as editor of the Paris Review, America’s premier literary journal. The product of Louisiana State University’s creative writing programme and a slew of writers’ retreats, the novel is
A bishop in the United States suspended a Catholic priest from public ministry on Wednesday for comparing Black Lives Matter activists to 'maggots and parasites'
An English bishop has urged Catholics to resist a new push to strip away protections for unborn children that would “leave the UK with the most extreme abortion legislation in Europe.”
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