Books

Is it really inevitable that China will rule the world?

John Allen's 'The Future Church,' reviewed

Richard Russo's new novel has an almost Aristotelian unity and focus.

For Thomas Berry, water, rocks and trees are not ancillary to his thought, but constitutive.

Stories from the Gulf Coast

Luke Timothy Johnson examines the lives of the early Christians.

‘Galileo Goes to Jail’ and other myths about science and religion

Here is a small book of images artfully constructed and melancholy with only one story to tell but a story with two parts the end is coming life goes on As the title indicates each poem in this the 19th volume from Charles Wright contains six lines but six lines visually attenuated always

Two years of love and danger in Tehran

The story of Annie Sullivan and Helen Keller is evidence that perseverance can bring miracles.