Dana Gioia

Continental Achievement

History & Biography

“What a joy to have the final portion of Kevin Starr's epic history of the American Catholic Church, covering the American Revolution and the early days of the Republic. Starr's lively chronicle makes compelling reading on its own, but this book has a special urgency given our current debates about the role of Catholicism in American life. Continental Achievement is a book all U.S. Catholics need to read.”

Continental Ambitions

History & Biography

“Continental Ambitions is the book I have been craving for years. It is the first historical study I've ever read that explains my America, in which Catholicism is not marginal and Hispanics are not minor latecomers. Starr's vision is truly continental. For him, the West is not a nineteenth century Yankee frontier but the epic landscape that parallels (and often precedes) Puritan New England as foundational to American identity. Continental Ambitions is not just the history of the Catholic Church in North America but also the untold story of the United States.”

Diary of a Country Priest

Fiction

“This new translation of Georges Bernanos' classic work is a major literary event. After nine decades, the complete text of this great Catholic novel appears in English for the first time. Finally, we can read Bernanos' masterpiece as he wrote it.”

Glimpses of Her Father’s Glory

Arts & Literature

“Evangeline is one of the neglected masterpieces of American literature. It not only presents a compelling story told in language of astonishing beauty—the meter of Homer and Virgil truly brought to life in English for the first time—Evangeline is also a tale of deep moral, political, and theological depth. In our age of political refugees and religious persecution, these issues remain terrifyingly relevant. How good to see Timothy Bartel dig into the theological sources and implications of Longfellow's North American epic.”