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Journalism. Books. Interviews. More.
How can a nation on the verge of becoming minority-majority also support a presidential candidate who is, basically, Mr. Burns from The Simpsons? Read...
Star Ledger | 11.24
New York Daily News | 11.22
MAGA'S OLD MONEY MAN
Irish Independent, 7.24
DEMS (NEW) IMMIGRANT WOES
Commonweal Magazine, 12.20
GOD, MAN & WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY
America Magazine, 7.25
FATHER'S DAY IN THE MANOSPHERE
National Catholic Reporter, 6.24
PROGRESSIVES ARE COURTING TROUBLE
Washington Post, 9.14
It wouldn't seem as if my Irish grandfather would have much in common with Nestoria Agirenbabazi. But both ended up on the same hilly patch of dirt and asphalt north of Manhattan.
National Catholic Reporter | 12.15.24
With the release of Netflix' new movie The Piano Lesson, a look back at many years spent teaching the great plays of August Wilson to Brooklyn students.
ChalkBeat | 11.1.24
An author and journalist, Tom Deignan teaches history and English at CUNY,
and is working on a book about American religion.
He writes regularly about American and Irish history, literature, faith and culture.
He is a regular contributor to...
tdeignan0@gmail.com
American Tragedies? Newark & Trenton
An interview with Sopranos creator David Chase.
National Catholic Reporter | 10.1.21
A stroll through Samuel Alito's old hood
WHAT'S NEW? American Character Studies
J. Edgar Hoover has become a cloak-and-dagger Forrest Gump, omnipresent in the shadows of American History, the personification of Hofstadter's paranoid style.
What's the greatest New York Irish book ever written?
WHAT'S NEW? Immigrant and Urban Studies
Jimmy B's World
Breslin filed copy from the days of Jackie Robinson to Barack Obama. A review of the new Library of America collection, edited by Dan Barry.
WHAT'S NEW? Immigration: Then and Now
Three decades later, The Giver — and a trio of follow-up novels about an array of social and spiritual conflicts — remain immensely popular, timely and provocative; and Lowry's words about the "riskiness" of reading are more relevant than ever.
National Catholic Reporter | 6.8.24
WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA?
Twenty-five years later, Martin Dressler—unwittingly—shines a harsh but revealing light on some of the 21st century’s most powerful forces (relentless innovation, high-tech capitalism) and enigmatic personalities (Elon Musk, Elizabeth Holmes).
America Magazine | 1.13.23
Interviews, Profiles, and Conversations
ACTORS, DIRECTORS
Jake Weary, Amybeth McNulty, Brian Geraghty, James Nesbitt, Alex Gibney, Ed Burns
FICTION
Richard Price, Colm Toibin, Nathan Hill, Octavia Butler,
Richard Ford, Dennis Lehane, Roddy Doyle
HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY
America's 1st Terror Cell, Babe Ruth, George Washington,
City of Migrants, Civil War Radicals
Book Reviews & Essays
