The next issue of the St. Austin Review is at the printers. The theme of this issue is “Richard Crashaw: English Poet, Catholic Exile” in commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary of the great poet’s birth.

Highlights of this issue:

R. V. Young ponders “the paradox of Richard Crashaw”.

Jonathan Wanner focuses on “Crashaw and Contemplation: The Music of the Mystical Life”.

Joseph Pearce compares the literary stature of Richard Crashaw and St. Robert Southwell.

Susan Treacy admires great musical settings of Richard Crashaw’s poetry.

Christopher Check encourages young Catholic men to “put out into the deep and go with joy into the dark”.

The regular full-colour art feature focuses on “the art of reality” of Carl E. Olson.

Carol Anne Jones takes a tradition-oriented look at “active participation at Mass after Vatican II”.

Kevin O’Brien pays homage to “Orestes Brownson: Forgotten Prophet”.

Donald DeMarco pities W. Somerset Maugham and delineates “the limitations of an agnostic”.

 Fr. Benedict Kiely sees heroism as “the one alternative left”.

James Bemis appraises the merits of The Grand Illusion in the latest in his regular series of film reviews.

Louis Markos reviews God and Charles Dickens.

Fr. Peter Milward praises Treason, Dena Hunt’s historical novel.

Eleanor Bourg Nicholson reviews There Before Us: Religion, Literature and Culture from Emerson to Wendell Berry.  

Clara Sarrocco reviews What the Saints Said about Heaven.

Roy Shoeman reviews The Price to Pay: A Muslim Risks All to Follow Christ.

 

New Poetry by Pavel Chichikov, Charlotte Ostermann, and Christopher J. Stravitsch.