Despite his popular image, Jack Kerouac was born and died a self-identified Catholic.

'The Testament of Mary' tells an intriguing though not always convincing story. It's main character—and to an extent its only character—is an old woman fretting about her past as she tries to get the facts straight.

Julian Barnes's new novel is a philosophical mystery that morphs into a morality tale.

On E. B. White and Henry David Thoreau.

Thanks to former Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent for sending this remembrance of George W. Hunt, S.J.

A memoir of desire, relationships and spiritual transformation.