Feuilleton
Feuilleton
Odds and ends from the staff of The Lamp.
On Saint Rita of Cascia in Alexandria, Virginia.
On Harrison Butker's winning kick at the Super Bowl.
On Marie de Vignerot, Cardinal Richelieu's heiress.
On the intercession of patron saints.
On the revival of old debates with the Church.
On Pope Francis's legacy.
On birth and death.
On what constitutes a church.
On miscarriages.
On the history of the Florida Keys.
A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré
John le Carré, ed. Tim Cornwell
Viking, pp. 752, $40.00
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory
Janet Malcolm
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 176, $26.00
A Philosopher Looks at the Religious Life
Zena Hitz
Cambridge, pp. 150, $12.99
Saint Dymphna: the Tragedy of an Irish Princess
National Gallery of Ireland
January 28 – May 28
Assume Nothing: Encounters with Assassins, Spies, Presidents, and Would-Be Masters of the Universe
Edward Jay Epstein
Encounter Books, pp. 392, $36.99
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