Book review: Fifty Catholic Churches to See Before You Die
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Elena Curti, former Deputy Editor of The Tablet, has written "Fifty Catholic Churches to see before you die". Michael Hodges reviews it.
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Elena Ferrante’s coming-of-age novel is also a study of storytelling
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The diarist’s gilded frame: Is Curzio Malaparte’s Paris the real thing?
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I suppose everyone has their own Paris, and “everyone” includes Curzio Malaparte. He would have liked nothing more than to be considered the bad...
The verve and vigour of Herbert McCabe’s writings
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Herbert McCabe: Recollecting a Fragmented Legacy By Franco Manni Cascade Books, 282pp, £50/$36 This book is the first systematic treatment of the thought of...
How Henry I’s dark brilliance gave way to Stephen’s incompetence
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An insight into the Protestant Bruderhof communities
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I have just been reading a most inspiring book: uplifting both in the honest stories of the search for meaning and faith that fill...
A fable that deserves to be seriously debated
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A book for our peculiar times
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Sophia Institute Press has collected a sparkling collection of the occasional essays written recently for Crisis Magazine by New York’s most well-read priest. Our...
Conan Doyle’s travels were part of his ‘search for something deeper’
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God and mammon: How religious longings were captured by commerce
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The Enchantments of Mammon By Eugene McCarraher Elknap Harvard, £31.95 Eugene McCarraher detests capitalism. Yet, to his immense credit, and to the great benefit...
Book review: Fifty Catholic Churches to See Before You Die
October 22, 2020
Elena Curti, former Deputy Editor of The Tablet, has written "Fifty Catholic Churches to see before you die". Michael Hodges reviews it.
On a Lake District farm, Progress was not all it seemed
October 16, 2020
English Pastoral – An Inheritance By James Rebanks Penguin, 283pp, £20 It opens with a young boy sitting with his grandfather on a tractor...
The prime minister who became a national symbol
October 16, 2020
The Churchill Myths By Steven Fielding, Bill Schwarz and Richard Toye Oxford University Press, 224pp, £20/$25.95 This is not a book about Winston Churchill,...
Elena Ferrante’s coming-of-age novel is also a study of storytelling
October 15, 2020
The Lying Lives of Adults By Elena Ferrante (tr by Ann Goldstein) Europa Editions, 322pp, £20/$26 “One April afternoon, right after lunch, my husband...
The diarist’s gilded frame: Is Curzio Malaparte’s Paris the real thing?
October 14, 2020
I suppose everyone has their own Paris, and “everyone” includes Curzio Malaparte. He would have liked nothing more than to be considered the bad...
The verve and vigour of Herbert McCabe’s writings
October 14, 2020
Herbert McCabe: Recollecting a Fragmented Legacy By Franco Manni Cascade Books, 282pp, £50/$36 This book is the first systematic treatment of the thought of...
How Henry I’s dark brilliance gave way to Stephen’s incompetence
October 14, 2020
The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream By Charles Spencer Harper Collins, 352pp, £20 It is difficult to imagine...
An insight into the Protestant Bruderhof communities
October 8, 2020
I have just been reading a most inspiring book: uplifting both in the honest stories of the search for meaning and faith that fill...
A fable that deserves to be seriously debated
October 5, 2020
Angelico Press has published another imaginative work from their unconventional list of authors. This time it is The Gentle Traditionalist Returns, by Roger Buck....
A book for our peculiar times
October 2, 2020
Sophia Institute Press has collected a sparkling collection of the occasional essays written recently for Crisis Magazine by New York’s most well-read priest. Our...
Conan Doyle’s travels were part of his ‘search for something deeper’
September 25, 2020
Conan Doyle’s Wide World: Sherlock Holmes and Beyond By Andrew Lycett Bloomsbury, 336pp, £18 Part of the magic of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s immortal...
God and mammon: How religious longings were captured by commerce
September 25, 2020
The Enchantments of Mammon By Eugene McCarraher Elknap Harvard, £31.95 Eugene McCarraher detests capitalism. Yet, to his immense credit, and to the great benefit...
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