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A magisterial study of The Divine Comedy by Professor James Nohrnberg: The Rungs of Saturn and Beyond, on the Wings of Contemplation: Dante in Translation and the Figurative Benedictine Cloister of Paradiso XXI-XXII. Summer-Fall 2022 (74.3-4).

A timely piece on populist demagoguery by Marquette’s own Sunil Macwan, S.J., “Populist Improvisation: A Reading of Marlowe’s Tamburlaine in the Context of the Coronavirus Pandemic” Fall 2020 (72.4).

Our 70th anniversary issue, Winter 2018 (70.1). It includes a reflection by the Rev. Mark Bosco, S.J., on his documentary film on the life of Flannery O'Connor.

The Spring 2016 issue (68.2). It includes an exclusive interview by Editor Emeritus Edwin Block with poet Carolyn Forché.

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