John Berryman’s Letters Reveal a Confounding Catholic Faith
A review of The Selected Letters of John Berryman, edited by Philip Coleman and Calista McRae.
Jim Harrison’s Essential Poetry
The author of Legends of the Fall was a poet, first and foremost.
Joe Wilkins’s Debut Novel Evokes Montana’s Divisions
A review of Fall Back Down When I Die, by Joe Wilkins.
‘Beauty from Horror’
Nicholas Ripatrazone reviews A Spell to Bless the Silence: Selected Poems, by John Montague.
Cold and Caring Critic
Nick Ripatrazone reviews American Audacity: In Defense of Literary Daring, by William Giraldi.
Poet of Plain Things
Nick Ripatrazone reviews Kindest Regards: New and Selected Poems, by Ted Kooser.
The Great Conversation
William Logan’s ‘Rift of Light’ is poetry meant to be read slowly.
Binding Wounds
The novel conveys an ability to re-create a Catholic atmosphere in which faith suffuses all things.