Raymond A. Schroth, S.J., America's books editor, considers shifting masculine ideals in film and literature.

A discerning critic of the American project has become a prophet for our time.

America's books editor surveys interesting recent articles on literature.

There is hardly a religious word in all of “Heal the Living,” but the film doesn’t need them.

Welcome to America's biannual literary review

François Ozon directs a parable set in the years immediately following World War I.

The story of a corrupt president, Boris Yeltsin, and his successor, Putin, trying to reconstruct their country as a world power

Is Sherlock Holmes back? Well, it depends on how we define "back."

What books made the reader a better person when he or she turned the final page?

Those visited in 1993 study the press coverage and look back in pain and anger.