The January/February issue of the St. Austin Review is winging its way to the printers. The theme of this issue is “Evelyn Waugh Revisited”. Highlights:

Sr. Joanna McCormack confronts the “Empty Minds and Vile Bodies” of the “Bright Young People” in Waugh’s early novel.

James Morris waxes lyrical on Waugh’s “Critical Heritage”.

Zach Krajacic admires “The Novelist and the Saint” in his discussion of Waugh’s life of St. Edmund Campion.

Joseph Pearce is “Revisiting Brideshead”.

Frank Brownlow laments the woeful state of modern Waugh criticism in “Waugh Mistaken and Brideshead Unvisited”.

Nathan Turner compares “Evelyn Waugh and Hunter S. Thompson on the Human Condition”.

James Morris waxes lyrical once again, this time on “The Characters in Brideshead”.

Lux Kamprath is “Redeeming the Times in Waugh’s Sword of Honour”.

Daniel Mitsui, in the regular full colour art feature, stresses that “Participating in Tradition” is key to “The Vocation of the Catholic Artist”.

Ken Clark continues his series on “Masterpieces”, discussing William Holman Hunt’s Shadow of Death.

Kevin O’Brien teaches “Lessons from Hamlet in 2016”.

James Bemis continues his series on classic movies with a review of Ordet.

Fr. Benedict Kiely exposes the perils of “Faith without Reason”.

Mitchell Kalpakgian reviews The Mississippi Flows into the Tiber.

Thomas F. X. Varacalli reviews Contraception and Persecution.

Regis Martin reviews The Coup at Catholic University: The 1968 Revolution in American Catholic Education.

Louis Markos reviews Knowledge and Christian Belief.

Eleanor Bourg Nicholson reviews Jennifer the Damned.

Marie Dudzik reviews The Feasts: How the Church Year forms us as Catholics.

Matthew P. Akers reviews The Church and the Usurers.

Melvin S. Arrington, Jr. reviews The Source of Life: Exploring the Mystery of the Eucharist.

New Poetry by Lisa Salinas, Pavel Chichikov and Mark Amorose.

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