In a collection of nine essays, Jia Tolentino writes about a range of topics, including the advent of our internet culture, the modern wedding industry, megachurch evangelical Christianity, market-driven feminism and college rape culture.

My father-in-law is coming to the end.

Paul Mariani’s poems ask, “Does God know us only by the names our parents gave us?,” another reminder of how the human and eternal meet.

In the mid-20th century, several women religious were writing and publishing ambitious poetry.

Dorothy Day lived a life that today poses significant challenges for just about anyone mindful of the least of our brethren.

Poetry is an attempt to say the unsayable, to capture what ultimately eludes.