The Bard of the Blue Collar Keeps the Falls Flowing
Richard Russo once again proves novelists don’t have to span the globe, or interrogate pernicious systems, to produce powerful and rich fiction.
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TOM DEIGNAN
Fords, New Jersey
Tom Deignan is a contributor to the New York Sun
Tom Deignan is an author and journalist who writes about religion for National Catholic Reporter, Commonweal magazine, and elsewhere. He teaches at CUNY and is working on a book about religion in the 1920s.
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Trotsky’s Bronx Tale Revisited
Today’s resurgent socialism echoes the fervor that greeted a Russian revolutionary’s arrival at New York more than a century ago.
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New York’s Oldest Library Chronicles a Young Country’s Birth
‘Collective Witness,’ an exhibition at the New York Society Library, discloses the Founding Fathers’ reading habits.
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‘Communion’ Sets Out JD Vance’s Two Competing Articles of Faith
Attempting to bridge the spiritual and political, the Vice President’s book is less compelling than “Hillbilly Elegy,” although it outlines his religious conviction.
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A 100-Year Catholic Cinematic Mystery: The Groundbreaking Lost Film Chronicling Chicago’s Eucharistic Congress
While the film reels for “International Eucharistic Congress” have been mislaid, its depiction of a landmark Catholic event set the template for subsequent documentaries.
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