The St. Austin Review
The St. Austin Review (StAR) is an international journal of Catholic culture, literature, and ideas. In its pages, printed every two months, some of the brightest and most vigorous minds around meet to explore the people, ideas, movements, and events that shape and misshape our world.
Homage to Dante 1321–2021
Sample Article “Dante: Into the Real” by Mary Gerardi Taylor
Many critics, as well as writers of more popular articles, books, and blog posts, had the life-changing experience of being introduced to Dante’s Comedy for the first time as adults, perhaps in a college literature class and usually beginning with the Inferno in one of the recent translations with their abundant scholarly footnotes. My introduction was quite different: first, because it was not to the Inferno; second because it was not within an academic context but rather one suffused by both lived Catholicism and the natural world of God’s creation; and finally because I was four years old. Read more…
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Shakespeare in the Shire
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Twelfth Night in a Nutshell
Exposing Malvolio, the wicked-willed Puritan in Shakespeare's comedy... https://jpearce.co/twelfth-night-in-a-nutshell/
Heroism and Holiness
What's the connection between heroism and Holiness? https://jpearce.co/heroism-and-holiness/
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