So what defines a Catholic novel? I am still struggling with that question. But I know that that which asks most of us is most worthy of us.

In a midtown subway station four silent women, bent over their smartphones, texted or read while an unconscious ragged man sprawled helpless at their feet. I checked to see if he was dead.

A drive along Sunset can be a startling experience, each turn in the road presenting another movie star smiling down from on high.

Lynch possessed a deeply incarnational spirituality and criticized religion understood as mere assent to transcendent meaning.

Told in alternating chapters, the lives of painter, collector and forger blend and echo in ways that none of them could imagine.

The book offers detailed guidance on managing decisions a potential college student must make: whether to go to college right after high school, where one should attend and how to find internships along the way.