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Jérôme Ferrari, The Sermon on the Fall of Rome (MacLehose Press, 2014).

It is intriguing that in a world which celebrates its obliteration of the “superstitious” and “supernatural” in support of the rational, materialistic, and scientific, there should still be an increasing market for the fairytale genre.

Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mom, trans. Chi-Young Kim (New York: Knopf, 2011), or Please Look After Mother (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011).

An Introduction to the ArteFact page.

Tim Gautreaux, Waiting for the Evening News: Stories of the Deep South (Sceptre, 2010).

Eugene Vodolazkin, Laurus, trans. Lisa C. Hayden (London: OneWorld, 2015).

Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, 2015. Directed by J. J. Abrams.

The luminous novel Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, takes the form of a book-length epistle from a Congregationalist minister to his seven year old son...

It is not easy to convey the notion of vocation in a secular world. Modern men and women tend to think of life as consisting in a series of choices, to be made by the individual in a linear fashion, according to what attracts or repulses them...

Tears are a gift. So say masters of the Christian mystical tradition like Ignatius of Loyola. To be moved by the tragedy of sin, and by God's abundant love and mercy, even to the point of tears, is a boon to the soul...