Magazine

It is time to turn our attention to how human actions influence these death-dealing events.

We are leaving our children a toxic world.

I came to Mary C Sullivan rsquo s biography of Catherine McAuley with several entrenched assumptions about the level of interest a 19th-century Irish founder of a women rsquo s religious order could possibly inspire These assumptions were handily challenged by the narrative sweep that Sullivan map

From Michael Sean Winters, a biography of Jerry Falwell

Charles Dickens and the London poor

From poet Dana Gioia, powerful meditations on loss and the redemptive power of beauty

'Detroit' examines relationships in troubled times.