Elaine Pagels' new book reads the Book of Revelation as wartime literature.

Thomas Lynch's The Sin-Eater breathes life into a figure from ancient folk magic.

The Anticipatory Corpse is a novel contribution to the field of bioethics.

The historian Hugh Trevor-Roper was both vigorously old school and unremittingly sarcastic.

In search of the real Thornton Wilder

Charles Taylor on the vexed issue of church and state in contemporary politics.