Reviews

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Review of The Rest Is Memory: A Novel by Lily Tuck in Englewood Review of Books, December 11, 2024

Review of The Mystics Would Like a Word by Shannon K. Evans in Today’s American Catholic, December 2024

Review of The Road to the Country by Chigozie Obioma, Hogarth Publishing, in Englewood Review of Books, October 24, 2024

Review of Sweet Hunter: The Complete Poems of St. Teresa of Avila, translated by Dana Delibovi, Monkfish Publishing in US Catholic, October 2024

Review of Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin, W. W. Norton & Company, 2024 in Englewood Review of Books, July 31, 2024

Review of The Sacrament of Same-Sex Marriage: An Inclusive Vision for the Catholic Church by Bridget Burke Ravizza, Rowman & Littlefield, 2024 in US Catholic, August 2024

Review of First Belong to God: On Retreat with Pope Francis by Austen Ivereigh in National Catholic Reporter, April 20, 2024

Review of How Ableism Fuels Racism: Dismantling the Hierarchy of Bodies in the Church by Lamar Hardwick, Brazos Press, 2024 on Englewood Review of Books, February 29, 2024

Review of Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Failed a Generation, by Jonathan Ward, Brazos Press, 2023 in National Catholic Reporter, August 5, 2023

Review of Christian Poetry in America Since 1940: An Anthology, edited by Micah Mattix and Sally Thomas (Paraclete Press, 2022) in National Catholic Reporter, April 22, 2023

Review of Holy Land: Poems by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell (Paraclete Press, 2022) in Dappled Things, a quarterly of ideas, art and faith, 2022

Review of The Consequence of Moonlight by Sofia Starnes (Paraclete Press, 2018) in Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, 2019

"Running Alongside a 'Woman Catching Fire:' Angela Alaimo O’Donnell’s Still Pilgrim: Poems" in Adanna, Issue 7, 2017

Review of One Crimson Thread by Micheal O’Siadhail (Bloodaxe Books, 2015), published in Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, 2017