Literature

Tidings from the Other Side

I am the keeper of a family memory. Its details are blurry and its edges curled, but I hold it close, like a pocketworn heirloom photograph. My grandmother is 6. She is playing on...

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Savor the Inexplicable

Tragedy and joy collided in my life the week my father died unexpectedly and my wife —equally unexpectedly — discovered she was pregnant. My view of the universe changed, too,...

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Ghost Tracks

As a kid growing up in northern Illinois, I wasn’t the sort who was overly concerned with supernatural phenomena. My imagination ran more along the lines of Casper the Friendly...

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Things That Go Bump in the Night

I will never forget the scariest ghost story I ever heard. I attended summer camp in Nova Scotia, on a crescent-shaped promontory overlooking the Bay of Fundy. Then and now, this...

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Le Jongleur de Notre Dame

The year 1939 had been rude to Richard Sullivan. A sweet-tempered and longsuffering professor of English and creative writing at Notre Dame, Sullivan ’30 maintained an active...

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Hunting All Cryptids

Consider the platypus. Had a live specimen of this semiaquatic mammal not been captured, studied and documented by scientists, could you imagine such a creature exists? Featuring...

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C.S. Lewis’s Vision with David Fagerber

Leonard DeLorenzo for Church Life Today welcomes David Fagerberg to talk about his upcoming lecture in our series on “The Chronicles of Narnia”; specifically, what C.S. Lewis...

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Why ‘Frankenstein’ Matters at 200: Rethinking the Human through the Arts and Sciences

Mary Shelley’s classic novel, Frankenstein, is the most widely taught novel at the university level around the world. Upon the novel’s bicentennial, this talk addresses the...

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On the Opposite Shore

As a fisherman, there comes a time in your life when you will go fishing without the one who taught you how to fish. A time when you can never fish with him again. If you are...

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Writing Thoreau: A ‘Masterpiece’ Biography

Hermit, gadfly, scientist, crank, teacher, saint—and one of America’s greatest writers: even Thoreau’s closest friends said he was too many-sided and mischievous to fit...

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Words On Play: Baseball Literature before 1900

Over the course of the nineteenth century, American baseball evolved from a localized folk game of English origin to a codified sport of broad popular appeal, commonly cited as...

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Fighting Words: English and American Boxing Literature from the Joyce Sports Collection

Notre Dame’s Rare Books and Special Collections is home to perhaps the strongest institutional collection of boxing-related books and periodicals in the United States. A...

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