Books

Before You Write

By Nick Ripatrazone January 10, 2019

Nick Ripatrazone reviews The Patch, by John McPhee.

Books

‘Beauty from Horror’

By Nick Ripatrazone December 20, 2018

Nicholas Ripatrazone reviews A Spell to Bless the Silence: Selected Poems, by John Montague.

Books

Cold and Caring Critic

By Nick Ripatrazone August 9, 2018

Nick Ripatrazone reviews American Audacity: In Defense of Literary Daring, by William Giraldi.

Books

Poet of Plain Things

By Nick Ripatrazone July 12, 2018

Nick Ripatrazone reviews Kindest Regards: New and Selected Poems, by Ted Kooser.

Books

Ways of Faith

By Nick Ripatrazone April 12, 2018

Nick Ripatrazone reviews The Cloister: A Novel, by James Carroll.

Culture

The Great Conversation

By Nick Ripatrazone December 31, 2017

William Logan's 'Rift of Light' is poetry meant to be read slowly.

Books

Binding Wounds

By Nick Ripatrazone October 16, 2017

The novel conveys an ability to re-create a Catholic atmosphere in which faith suffuses all things.

Politics & Policy

Out of the Past

By Nick Ripatrazone September 26, 2016

Ann Patchett’s new book is melancholy without being morose.