By focusing on parental grief, “Mass” grounds us in human tragedy even as it touches on the political and social implications of the epidemic of school shootings in the United States.

Colm Tóibín's new novel, 'Long Island,' is a sequel to perhaps his best-known book, 'Brooklyn.' What was it like to take up the story again two decades later? He tells us in this interview with America.

In 'Ecomartyrs of the Amazon: Living and Dying for Our Common Home,' Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo invites us to look carefully at the lives of modern ecomartyrs as a guide to help us “re-imagine and re-embody the relationship between human beings and the earth.”

Why would you get married? In his new book, 'Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization,' Brad Wilcox argues that civilization itself depends upon convincing more Americans to tie the knot.

Her laptop says Coffee and Jesus, so I fish the Bible from my backpack,

a goblet neither full nor empty, off balance there, like Humpty Dumpty