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CHILDREN'S BOOKS Classics, old & in the making Daria Donnelly One of the greatest stories of friendship and loss (in fact the world's oldest story, period) has just been translated for children:...

A GAY PARENT LOOKS AT HIS CHURCH (October 2003)

A GAY PARENT LOOKS AT HIS CHURCH An interview with novelist Gregory Maguire Daria Donnelly Novelist Gregory Maguire is a prominent figure in the world of children's literature. Best known as a...

Notebook At large (April 2003)

AT LARGE Our editor in Cambridge, Massachusetts On Ash Wednesday 2002,1 was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a rare blood cancer that weakens the immune system and eats the bones. The chaplain at...

Children's books Mature subjects for young readers (April 2003)

'This land is your land* Daria Donnelly 0n illicit love affair. Physician-assisted suicide. Bi-sexuality. Musings on the irrelevance of marriage. Suitable subjects for your favorite Commonweal...

At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden by Yossi Klein Halevi (October 2002)

BOOKS At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden A Jew's Search for God with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land Yossi Klein Halevi William Morrow, $25, 315pp. Praying with the enemy Daria...

Children's books The high art of book illustration (April 2002)

III minated manuscripts Daria Donnelly Here's the assignment: Read the story of Cain and Abel (King James version please). With the text reprinted on lovely thick stock, draw one marginal...

Children's books: Entering expansive territory (November 2001)

The question for younger Catholics is not, Why do we leave the church? There are plenty of obvious reasons: patriarchy, a secular world, lack of faith, poor liturgies, homophobia. The more...

The mouths of babes (September 2001)

NOTEBOOK THE NOMTHS OF BABES Young Catholics speak up What do Miss Wisconsin 1999, a Vietnamese immigrant, a law student, and a Catholic Worker have in common? They're young...

Time stops for no mouse: Children's books (April 2001)

CHILDREN'S BOOKS Time stops for no mouse Daria Donnelly Is there anything lovelier than discovering a really talented, even famous writer by chance? That just happened to me with the...

EMPTY CONFESSIONALS: Do I know this guy? (February 2001)

When I was twelve, a priest assigned me 300 Hail Marys and 300 Our Fathers for reciting the new Act of Contrition. He didn't like it. My mother reduced the sentence to 3, reasoning that I must...

Big questions for small readers (November 2000)

Big questions for small readers Daria Donnelly hilipa Pearce's 1958 Tom's cover a lot of territory and so does the dren's philosophical and...

Summer reading (June 2000)

to wage an essentially gutless war. run across the field to attempt the rescue. to liberate people but to enslave them. Kosovo involved a new kind of war- McEwan's narrator,...

Hey! Harry Potter has cousins! (April 2000)

Hey! Harry Potter has cousins! Daria Donnelly K. Rowling has the Midas with an unforgettable narrator. Cassan- black working class in the...

Revivals & new arrivals (November 1999)

ATTENTION DEFICIT Katharine Byrne On the annals of family photography, snapshot division, children were likely to be lined up, all of them urged to stand still and smile at their father's camera....

Theological Aesthetics (September 1999)

BOOKS Lift up your art Theological Aesthetics God in Imagination, Beauty, and Art Richard Viladesau Oxford $49.95, 294 pp. Darla Donnelly__________ Hope John Paul II's recent "Letter to...

Tomi (August 1999)

BOOKS No fairy tale Tomi A Childhood under the Nazis Tomi lingerer Tomko. 529.95,775 pp. Daria Donnelly Alsatian graphic artist Tomi Ungerer is best known for the children's books he made...

Curiosity, humor & courtesy (April 1999)

CHILDREN'S BOOKS Curiosity, humor & courtesy Daria Donnelly Iknow a successful MIT graduate who regularly trawls the children's section of his local public library for books about...

Geniuses at Work (November 1998)

Geniuses a t Work Daria Donnelly renaissance is under way in children's literature, and alongside the ephemera, an astonishing number of true and beautiful books for young people now can be...

Seamus Heaney (November 1998)

A POET ILLUMINATED Daria Donnelly ~ elen Vendler, the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard, and America's best-known poetry critic, has been an ardent admirer of...

Critics' choices for Christmas From the "Book of Nonsense" to the "Vegetarian Planet," the joys of "Hardboiled America" to "The Bridge on the Drina," our critics urge you to stuff your stockings with good books this Christmas (December 1997)

BOOKS Critics' choices for Christmas Daria Donnelly Daria Donnelly, a free-lance writer, lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. When I was young our house was full of poetry. My mother spoke to us...

Upholding Mystery Edited by David Impastato (July 1997)

PARSING THE SILENCE Upholdlna Mystery An Anthology of Contemporary Christian Poetry David Impastato, editor Oxford, $25,369pp Daria Donnelly According to an oft invoked joke, writers of poetry...

The Hidden Law (December 1993)

faction in The Federalist No. 10, which appeared a day later, on November 22. In The Debate on the Constitution, however, the two essays are separated from each other by George Mason's...

Jesus' Son: (August 1993)

BOOKS Flannery O'Connor in reverse The fantasy: poet-novelist JESUS' SON years, Johnson began to think about...

Into the city of faithfulness: (June 1993)

INTO THE CITY OF DARIA DONNELLY FAITHFULNESS NEGOTIATING A JEWISH-CATHOLIC MARRIAGE it poet and friend of...

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