released 9/25/2025
Should Christians read fiction? If so, how? And what makes a novel “Christian” or specifically “Catholic”? In discussing Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair, Katy Carl speaks about the relationship between faith and art, how good Catholic fiction is more descriptive than prescriptive, and how a fictional world can portray the goodness and order of creation — even when the characters or even the author can’t quite see it or believe in it. Carl, who wrote the Foreword to a 2025 edition of The End of the Affair (Word on Fire Classics), discusses Greene’s fiction and the trajectory of his writing and faith throughout the twentieth century. She also talks about the current state of Catholic literature in the West and around the world.
49 minutes
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