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