The post-Catholic Joyce
Filtered through my deconstructed Catholic faith, Ulysses holds up surprisingly well.
Pope Benedict’s complicated legacy
Both his strengths and his failings are distinctly Catholic.
Reading The Waste Land as it turns 100
T. S. Eliot’s epic poem is a masterpiece—but what do we do with its view of classical Western tradition?
Can you like Dostoevsky?
Philosopher and linguist Julia Kristeva asks but does not answer this question about the Russian novelist’s complex work.
When localism becomes nationalism
At the farmers market, I found something I didn’t expect—White supremacists.