The St. Austin Review is a Catholic international review of culture and ideas. It is edited by author and columnist Joseph Pearce

Joseph Pearce

Joseph Pearce is an English-born writer, and Writer in Residence and Professor of Literature at Ave Maria University in Ave Maria, Florida; previously he had a comparable position, from 2001, at Ave Maria College in Ypsilanti, Michigan. He is known for a number of literary biographies, many of...

 and writer Robert Asch

Robert Asch

Robert Charles Asch is a British Catholic writer and scholar. Born into an Anglo-Canadian Jewish family in London, he was educated at St Paul's School and the University of Toronto. He converted to Catholicism in 1996 and writes from a Catholic perspective. He is co-editor of the St...

. StAR includes book reviews, discussions of sacred art, contemporary poetry, and erudite essays on all aspects of contemporary culture, from a traditional Catholic perspective.

Originally launched to be the flagship publication of the Saint Austin Press

Saint Austin Press

Saint Austin Press is a British Roman Catholic publishing house founded in 1996.In its first ten years of operation, Saint Austin Press published around 50 books on various themes as diverse as William Shakespeare, hagiography, Freemasonry, floristry, liturgy, Scripture, Apologetics, fiction and...

 in 2001 it is now published by Ave Maria University

Ave Maria University

Ave Maria University or AMU is a private Catholic university in southwest Florida, United States, founded in 2003. The university moved to its permanent campus, situated in the planned town of Ave Maria, east of Naples, Florida, in August 2007...

's Sapientia Press. It is distributed by Sapientia in North America, and Family Publications in Europe. The journal is trans-atlantic in content, containing material from both America and Europe, although the contents tend to lean towards content from America.

In addition to the editors regular contributors include Apologist Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Jesuit Fr. Peter Milward

Peter Milward

Peter Milward is a Jesuit priest and literary scholar. He is emeritus professor of English Literature at Sophia University in Tokyo and a leading figure in scholarship on English Renaissance literature. He has been chair of the Renaissance Institute at Sophia University since its inception in 1974...

, Fr. James Schall, Prof. Susan Treacy, educationalist and founder of Chavagnes International College

Chavagnes International College

Chavagnes International College is a Catholic school for boys in Chavagnes-en-Paillers, France. Founded in 1802 by Louis-Marie Baudouin the school was re-fashioned an "international college" by Ferdi McDermott in 2002...

 Ferdi McDermott, Editor-in-Chief of Baronius Press

Baronius Press

Baronius Press is a traditional Catholic book publisher with headquarters in London, England. It was founded in Glasgow, Scotland in 2003 by former St Austin Press editor, Ashley Paver and other young Catholics who had previously worked in publishing and printing...

 Dr. John Newton, Dr. Patrick Riley, and artist and essayist Jef Murray

Jef Murray

Jef Murray is a fantasy artist and illustratorbest known for his illustrations of works byJ.R.R. Tolkien. His paintings andillustrations appear regularly in Tolkienpublications Jef Murray (Jeffrey Patrick Murray, born 1960) is a fantasy artist and illustratorbest known for his illustrations of...

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