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Georgetown senior fellow, New Yorker contributor, author of THE LIFE YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN, REINVENTING BACH, and THE LAST SUPPER (FSG/Picador pbk, May)
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On Group Portraiture and the Secret Histories of Art: Paul Elie and Julia Cooke in Conversation

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By Paul Elie, Julia Cooke
| Literary Hub Verified
“Insights and kinships emerge almost unbidden—called forth through juxtaposition.” A decade and change ago, Paul Elie taught a class that I found formative. Its focus was first books, and he talked about each assignment in revelatory terms, prodding us graduate students to connect exciting dots: between a first book and what followed in an author’s career; among similar books of totally different theme; around varied cultural touchpoints that did not feel but were, of course, linked.
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The Pope’s First Anniversary Is Marked by More Sparring from the White House

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By Paul Elie
| The New Yorker Verified
The Pope has responded to the war in Iran in stages, since answering a reporter’s question on March 31st, by saying about the President, “Hopefully, he’s looking for an off-ramp.” An eleven-day trip to Africa in April seemed destined to be a low-key affair (the Italian daily La Repubblica declined to send its Vatican correspondent), but a day before it started Trump posted a diatribe against Leo on Truth Social, calling him “WEAK on crime” and “terrible for Foreign Policy.” An in-flight press...
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This Easter, an American Pope Confronts an American War

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By Paul Elie
| Reader Supported News
Last week, when asked if he had a message about the war in Iran for President Trump, Leo XIV said, “Hopefully, he’s looking for an off-ramp.” Of all the Catholic rituals of Holy Week—the Palm Sunday procession; the Mass of the Lord’s Supper, on Holy Thursday; the Way of the Cross, on Good Friday—surely the most striking is the washing of the feet. Partway through the Holy Thursday Mass, twelve people take seats near the altar and remove their shoes and socks.
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