The July/August issue of the St. Austin Review is winging its way to the printers.

The issue’s theme: Viva Cristo Rey! Spain and the Church

Highlights:

Melvin S. Arrington, Jr., examines “the concept of justice in Don Quixote”.

Joseph Pearce on “the controversial conversion of Roy Campbell” and why Campbell believed that Spain had saved his soul.

Emilio Dominguez Diaz discusses “Roy Campbell, John of the Cross and the Spanish Civil War”.

Harry Stow, an English poet, “witnesses the Red Terror in Madrid”.

A special photo feature exposes “the horrors of secular fundamentalism in Spain”.

Beatriz Villacañas, “standing on the shoulders of giants”, glances at contemporary Catholic poetry in Spain.

Joseph Pearce admires “Spain Personified” in the art of Salvador Dali and the poetry of Roy Campbell.

Joseph Pearce interviews Spanish artist Mercedes Flores who reveals why she is “picking flowers for God”.

Richard Aleman takes “an unconventional look at Catholic Catalonia”.

Susan Treacy waxes musical about the “songs and dances of Our Lady” in the Red Book of Montserrat.

John Beaumont asks the million dollar question: “Hemingway: Catholic or Not?”

James Bemis discusses the film Nazarin and looks at the career of its Spanish director.

Donald DeMarco launches his new regular column with “an atheist’s modest proposal”.

Fr. Benedict Kiely warns of the dangers of “the China Syndrome” in contemporary America.

Kevin O’Brien psychoanalyses “the demand for social assurance that abortion and sexual evils are ok”.

Christopher King muses on Les Miserables.

Carl R. Hasler reviews Donoso Cortes: Readings in Political Theory.

Dena Hunt reviews Fire of Love: A Historical Novel about Saint John of the Cross.

Dena Hunt reviews Centurion’s Daughter, another historical novel.

Thomas Martin reviews If Aristotle’s Kid had an iPod.

Kenneth Colston reviews Terrapin: A Mystery.

Katie St. Hilaire peers into A Walled Garden.

Nancy Nahra, inspired by St. Teresa of Avila, offers “devotions as sonnets”.

 

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