St. Augustine's Press
The Saint Austin Review (StAR) was first launched in England on September 8, 2001, under the editorship of Joseph Pearce, author of innumerable works on literature, great literary figures, converts to the Catholic Church, and other works on culture, and has been edited and published in the United States since early in its founding.
StAR is unique: the only magazine to devote itself entirely to an in-depth study of culture from a Catholic point of view. In every issue you will find stimulating articles tackling a cultural theme from a traditional Catholic perspective. What is unique about StAR is not just that it covers culture, but that the articles are both popular and scholarly and that they are written by the most brilliant writers and thinkers in the Church. Even the present Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, has shown his support for the work that StAR is doing to evangelize the culture by granting us permission to publish the first English translation of his article “on Catholicity”. No Catholic magazine – whatever its field – can boast a more impressive list of contributors . . . James V. Schall, Thomas Howard, Patrick G.D. Riley, Stanley Jaki, Fr. Benedict Kiley, Robert Asch, Peter Kreeft, Peter Milward , s.j., Janet Smith, Fr. Dwight Longenecker, and many others.
StAR has something in every issue to appeal to the interested amateur and the expert alike. But that is not all. StAR does not merely discuss culture, it has it on offer: new stories by such writers as Michael D. O’Brien and Marcus Grodi, new poetry, and full-color reproductions of new painting. We also publish new translations and have recently recruited the services of Ewald Osers, one of the world’s great translators.
Every forty-four page issue of StAR, published six times yearly, highlights a theme of special interest to Catholics or one of great general cultural interest, but from a specifically Catholic point of view.
