Arts & Culture

During the Soviet occupation of Lithuania from 1972 to 1989, the Chronicle was an underground publication that was smuggled out of the country and sent to New York to be translated and disseminated to a wider audience.

Affectionate yet forthright, the profile “The Last Movie Stars” takes a clear-eyed look at the often-mythologized bond between actor Paul Newman and fellow star Joanne Woodward.

Bathroom humor reaches new heights — make that depths — in “Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank” (Paramount), an animated martial-arts spoof with a most unlikely provenance.

Conventional wisdom suggests that science and religion are at odds — facts versus faith. These two books, however, make a persuasive case for the “relational unity” between powerful fields of human thought.

“This is God’s creation being revealed to us, and in it we can see both his astonishing power and his love of beauty,” Brother Guy Consolmagno said.

The latest illustrations of the 21-year-old parishioner of Our Lady of the Valley Church in Luray, Virginia, can be found in “Our Lady Undoer of Knots,” a children’s book recently released by Tan Books.

Joseph Pfeifer’s book, “Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11,” published last year, won a Christopher Award in June as a work that embodies “the highest values of humanity.”

The online exhibit sponsored by the Knights of Columbus shows some of the many connections between the Catholic fraternal organization and the national pastime.