I write because I breathe. It's what I do. I've always known that it was what I would do. As a child, making weekly trips to the local library and creating my own magazines, I knew in my heart that I ...

Editor’s Note: The “2022 Catholic Imagination Conference” will be held this week at the University of Dallas. The following excerpt is adapted from a handout for participating students. The ...

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Whereas I may be feeling like the tank is empty when it comes to the five-day-a-week job, I find myself renewed daily when it comes to writing.

THERE are no living American Catholics who are major writers. By two rules of thumb I suggest that American Catholic writers have been found wanting: individually they have failed to produce (1) a ...

Editor’s note: The following essay appeared in the Dec. 7, 1935 issue of America. I had the good fortune the other night to dine (in the best Catholic tradition) with two outstanding Catholic writers.

This essay was given as a talk at Union Theological Seminary in New York, during a conference on “Catholicism and the Public Square,” sponsored by Commonweal magazine and the Faith and Reason ...

I’m not asking the above question, mind you. Myles Connolly asked and answered it in something of a jeremiad in the pages of America eight decades ago—and yet some of his criticisms remain relevant ...

There are people in the world who derive no small pleasure from the game of “major” and “minor.” They think that no major work can be painted in watercolors. They think, too, that Hemingway writing ...