Christian humanism must navigate a middle path between the church submitting to the state or the state coopted by the church.
Lee Oser
Glenn Arbery’s Boundaries of Eden extends the tradition of the Southern novel without allowing his historical fiction to sacrifice real history.
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan is not the only politician in the United States of America who appears to be operating in a trance.
As an epic vision of reality, Karl Marlantes’s Deep River takes up the enduring cultural theme of primitivism.
Requiem for a once-hospitable city.
"I always resisted cheap political fixes and utopian rhetoric. I adore John Lennon but 'Imagine' is a dreadful embarrassment—like Auden’s poem, 'Spain.'"
Novelist and critic Lee Oser teaches English at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. His novels include The Oracles Fell Silent and Oregon Confetti. His latest, Christian Humanism in Shakespeare: A Study in Religion and Literature is forthcoming with Catholic University of America Press.