Given the opportunity, I will say to almost anyone that I think novelists take themselves far too seriously, and for that matter, some even expect to be regarded with awe. The creative engine, though a mighty machine, is easily thrown into reverse. I do not, by the way, exclude myself from this. In a few
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During my student years at St. Louis University, Father Claude Heithaus, S.J. taught in the Classical Languages Department. I was far from one of his star students in a course devoted to translating and studying the Roman poets Catullus and Martial. Father Heithaus was a classical archaeologist. Student gossip suggested that he had once noticed
Much we know about the world would be lost were it not for artistic renderings of the past. Memories otherwise would seldom outlive those who remember. Eamon Duffy’s The Stripping of the Altars forced professional historians and casual readers alike to revise assessments of the Catholic religion in England in the years immediately preceding the Reformation: If