Alan Jacobs’s new book is a collage of the intellectual considerations of five thinkers who, in their experience of the violence of World War II and their revulsion at the fascism that fueled it, contemplate the nature of education and its renewal after the anticipated Allied victory.

Arthur Koestler was a man of controversy in death as in life.

The curious life of J. D. Salinger

Readers of the work of literary critic and novelist James Wood will know that he is God-haunted The title of his first novel was after all The Book against God Wood s preoccupation with God specifically the problem of evil is addressed head-on this week s New Yorker in which he cons

'Simone Weil,' by Simone Weil

A reflection for the second Friday of Advent

'The Liar's Wife,' by Mary Gordon

Why exchange one brand of Christianity for another with similar hang-ups?

President Emmanuel Macron scandalized secularists by praising Catholic contributions to French public life, but he has yet to work toward religious liberty.

It may not be too much to call Edward Hirsch a theologial poet.