The January/February issue of the St. Austin Review is on the theme of “The Bard of Avon and the Church of Rome”. Here are some of this issue’s highlights:
- Mitchell Kalpakgian catches Shakespeare’s Glimpse into Heaven and Eternal Joy
- Fr. Peter Milward examines the Turning Point in Shakespearian Drama
- Veronica Lyter sees the Pattern in Shakespeare’s Carpet
- Carol Anne Jones studies the Gospel According to Shakespeare
- Brendan D. King discovers the Bard of Avon in Soviet Russia, focusing on Boris Pasternak and Hamlet
- Graeme Garvey interviews Joseph Pearce on Shakespeare’s Catholicism
- Donald DeMarco connects Shakespeare, Aquinas, and the Natural Law
- Christian or Anti-Christian? Kevin O’Brien reports on the Shakespeare Wars
- Joseph Pearce paints the Portrait of an Honest Ghost
- A full colour art feature looks at Shakespeare and the Pre-Raphaelites
- Stephanie A. Mann celebrates Pope Benedict XVI’s English Catholic Legacy
- Fr. Benedict Kiely enjoys the Chesterton Moment
- Fr. Dwight Longenecker asks provocatively whether Tolkien hated Shakespeare
- John Beaumont pays tribute to Joe Sobran, “a stalwart witness to Christ and the Church”
- A second art feature focuses on the Art and Aesthetic Vision of John A. Calabrese
- Susan Treacy muses on Shakespeare and Verdi
- James Bemis is irritated by Attenborough’s Gandhi
- Dena Hunt reviews Shakespeare on Love by Pearce
- Clara Sarrocco admires A Life Observed: A Spiritual Biography of C. S. Lewis by Devin Brown
- Dena Hunt reviews Death Panels, a novel by Michelle Buckman
- Lorraine V. Murray reviews Do No Harm, a novel by Fiorella De Maria
- Sr. Patricia Schnapp waxes lyrical on Philip C. Kolin’s new volume of poetry
- Shaun Blanchard praises Robert P. George for confronting the dogmas of Liberal Secularism
- Matthew P. Akers reviews For Notre Dame: Battling for the Heart and Soul of a Catholic University by Wilson D. Miscamble
- Seana Sugrue reviews The Common Mind: Politics, Society and Christian Humanism from Thomas More to Russell Kirk by André Gushurst Moore
- New poetry by Trevor Lipscombe
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