St. Austin Review

The St. Austin Review (StAR) is a Catholic international review of culture and ideas. It is edited by author, columnist and EWTN TV host Joseph Pearce and literary scholar Robert Asch. StAR includes book reviews, discussions on Christian art, contemporary Christian poetry, and erudite essays on all aspects of both past and present literature and culture from a traditionalist Catholic perspective. The magazine is based in South Bend, Indiana. Originally launched to be the flagship publication of the Saint Austin Press in 2001, it is now published by St. Augustine's Press. It is distributed by St. Augustine's in North America, and was distributed in Europe by Family Publications until they ceased trading. The journal is multinational in content, containing material from North America, Europe, and Australasia, although the review tends to lean towards material from the United States. In addition to the editors, regular contributors have included G.K. Chesterton scholar Dale Ahlquist, Ordinariate priest and Catholic apologist Fr. Dwight Longenecker, former C.S. Lewis protégé Fr. Peter Milward, Fr. James V. Schall, musicologist Susan Treacy, Chavagnes International College founder Ferdi McDermott, editor-in-chief of Baronius Press Dr. John Newton, Dr. Patrick Riley, and artist and essayist Jef Murray. Poets and writers whose work has appeared in StAR include Dana Gioia, Maryann Corbett, Ralph McInerny, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Aidan Nichols, Fr. Benedict Groeschel, Alice von Hildebrand, scholar of Scottish Gaelic literature Ronald Black, Brendan D. King, and Peter Kreeft. Frequently, theme issues of StAR focus on the role played by Catholicism in the arts, the literature, the history, and the culture of Great Britain, the United States, and many other nations. Occasionally, StAR has also introduced it's readers to literary figures of the past who were not previously well known among Conservative and Traditionalist Catholics. For example, Jackson T.