The March/April issue of the St. Austin Review (www.staustinreview.com) is winging its way to the printers.

The theme of the issue is “Faith & Fiction”.

Highlights:

Sophia Mason finds an unlikely match in Emma Wodehouse and Mr. Darcy.

Jill Kriegel considers Gaskell’s Mary Barton as a Magdalene type.

Regis Martin reflects on Dracula as “a quintessential Catholic Classic”.

Katie St. Hilaire compares the treatment of suffering in Kafka and Chesterton.

Michael Hageböck considers “murder through conviction” in Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment.

Susan Treacy admires Prokofiev’s musical adaptation of Tolstoy’s War and Peace.

Father Benedict Kiely invites St. Augustine of Hippo to join him for “Tea with the Barbarians”.

Father Dwight Longenecker looks at “film and fiction”.

James Bemis has mixed feelings about Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane.

Christina Strafaci examines ways of “Changing the Culture through Art and Friendship”.

Ronald J. Buttarazzi, Sr. reflects on an icon.

“Madonna with Child”, a new work of sculpture by Alexander Tylevich, is admired.

Kevin O’Brien looks at “Catholic Fiction and the Rest of the Story”.

Al Benthall reviews Mary Reichardt’s Beyond Human and Divine: The Catholic Vision in Contemporary Literature.

Sophia Mason reviews the new edition of a Gothic classic, The Magic Ring, illustrated by StAR’s artist-in-residence, Jef Murray.

Also, in this issue on the theme of “faith and fiction”, we celebrate new Catholic fiction with reviews of thirteen new novels. Those whose novels are reviewed include Kevin Aldrich, Lucy Beckett, John Desjarlais, David C. Downing, Gary L. Gregg, Marcus Grodi, Michael Hallford, Peter Kreeft, Lorraine V. Murray, Eleanor Bourg Nicholson, and Michael D. O’Brien.

Last but hopefully not least, I have written my usual editorial on the theme and also a report on the fight against secular fundamentalism on campus.

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