Martin Schneider writes:
I agree with the editors of America, the national Catholic weekly, that the most recent Fiction Issue may have represented a stealthy way of having a “Faith” issue in America’s most prestigious secular magazine. They note that “the magazine’s literary critic, James Wood, wrote a 4,000-word essay on the problem of theodicy, a term one does not often encounter in the pages of Eustace Tilley’s journal.”
America can cheer in recent hire Wood, then, because the guy has mentioned theodicy in five different articles so far! And, of course, the magazine does mention The Brothers Karamazov quite a lot, which is almost as good.
It will surely further cheer America that James Wolcott didn’t like all the wintry God stuff.
Myself, I have no objection to an emphasis on rabbinical or Jesuitical disquisition in the magazine. But June?