There is a common assumption that the more familiar a person is with a given subject the less objective he or she becomes in assessing it Earle Labor rsquo s new biography of Jack London represents a notable departure from this conventional wisdom After over 50 years of studying Jack London and t

Dr. Lloyd Sederer's 'The Family Guide to Mental Health Care.'

Icons of Hope John Thiel rsquo s creative effort to explore Christian belief in eternal life is clearly the work of a major theological thinker Focusing on the eschata the classical four last things mdash heaven hell death and judgment mdash Thiel rejects Kant rsquo s position on the limitatio

Thomas Dyja explores the cultural foundations of the ldquo American century rdquo in this engaging fast-paced and original account of mid-century Chicago The city was the breeding ground of American modernity from 1930 to 1960 according to Dyja Chicago was not only the country rsquo s railroad

In the years following World War II and continuing after the Second Vatican Council, to be an American Catholic novelist often meant to be lapsed.

Without a Claim Grace Schulman rsquo s dazzling seventh poetry collection immerses us in a richly textured world where ldquo dread-and-joy rdquo are neighbors ldquo Charles Street Psalm rdquo and nothing is truly ours ldquo We rent borrow or share even our bodies and never own all that