
Friday Links, January 15, 2021
Poetry, Art History, Homeless Benefit, a New Press
A quarterly journal of ideas, art, and faith
Poetry, Art History, Homeless Benefit, a New Press
Art is both life and death
Making sense of social upheaval
Purchase Featuring nonfiction from Joshua Hren, fiction from Jennifer Marie Donahue and Rob Davidson and the winners and honorees of the Bakhita Prize in Visual Arts.
New publications, contests to enter, exquisite art calligraphy to enjoy . . . Happy New Year from Revolution of Tenderness We invite all we meet to an ongoing exploration of the connections between faith, culture, and life. The Borromean rings in our logo are a sign of unity in diversity, and … [Read More...]
I never expected to meet Mike Finnegan again. That name belonged to a character from the annals of my long-ago childhood, dim and yet vaguely pleasant. Mike was part of my brother’s posse; that nameless rabble of 8th grade boys who move as one through life, jostling and scuffling as they go. They … [Read More...]
A little over a hundred years ago, in October of 1918, my great-grandfather walked into a clerk’s office in West Virginia and received his citizenship, reflected in a certificate signed by court clerks A.J. Harrison and S.G. Barrett. In my mind’s eye, it is a warm October day. The clerk’s office in … [Read More...]
On the Seventh Day of Christmas, Anno Domino 2021 The Strangeness of the Good: A Poet and an Archbishop Speak The Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship is sponsoring this free online event featuring Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone and James Matthew Wilson—with readings from … [Read More...]
Joshua Hren Graphic stories, given by so many victims of Catholic priests and made explicit in (for instance) the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report, leave the listener transfixed in terror over how one person could be so broad—in persona Christi and unspeakably perverted—at once. Still more … [Read More...]
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Arthur Powers
SELECTED BY KATY CARL, EDITOR IN CHIEF
(Rio de Janeiro — 1968 / Paris — 1973)
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Carla Alves was twenty-three when she came from Rio de Janeiro to Paris: a woman of medium height, with dark blonde hair, a fresh white complexion, and thoughtful hazel eyes. At twenty-three she was an optimist by nature, raised in a home filled with love, and—despite all that had happened—tending deep inside to hope for the best, to trust people. But she was wary.