Erik Edstrom, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, tries to explain what our recent wars have meant to the people of Afghanistan and Iraq.

This story of a Vietnamese immigrant growing up in the United States is constructed as a series of meditations on the lessons from great books that moved and instructed him.

72 percent of students and 87 percent of teachers in Catholic schools are white. They need to be reading and teaching more Black literature.

Mantel’s portrait of More is of a self-serving whiner with a death wish. But what must always be remembered is that she is creating fiction.

Flannery O’Connor was, like many people of her time, “a walking contradiction when it came to matters of race.” 

Cairns is a rare figure in American letters: a religious poet free of mawkish piety.