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About This Issue
On coffee.
 
        
On Newman and Littlemore.
On Jacques Fesch’s cause for canonization.
On Robert Prevost’s doctoral thesis.
On losing one’s parents.
On well-ordered family life.
On political violence as a spectator sport.
On two new types of guy.
On Western culture without Christianity.
Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson, Leo Damrosch, Yale University Press, pp. 584, $35.00
Electric Spark: The Enigma of Dame Muriel, Frances Wilson, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, pp. 432, $32.00
The Letters of Muriel Spark, Vol. 1: 1944–1963, Edited by Dan Gunn, Virago, pp. 688, £35.00
Siena: The Rise of Painting 1300–1350, National Gallery, London March–June 2025
Gratefully & Affectionately: Mary Lavin & The New Yorker, Gráinne Hurley, New Island Books, pp. 320, $31.99
The Lamp is published by the Three Societies Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Three Rivers, Michigan, in partnership with The Institute for Human Ecology at The Catholic University of America. Views expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Institute for Human Ecology or The Catholic University of America or of its officers, directors, editors, members, or staff.