Back in the 1960s there was almost universal acceptance among social scientists of the ldquo secularization thesis rdquo the belief that as societies became more modern mdash more economically developed technologically sophisticated democratic etc mdash they would become increasingly secular

Poems and prayers from Thomas Flowers, S.J.

Ron Hansen reviews Andrew Dubus III’s memoir of his absentee father

In the wake of her husband's death, Joyce Carol Oates struggled with resentment, despair, rage, and guilt.

A history of the musical theater, reviewed

Edmund Morris astounds even the inveterate Theodore Roosevelt aficionado.