'Big Fiction' is a book full of cogent analysis, ambitious argument, juicy quotes from insiders and a demonstration of the central role of Catholics in American publishing.

Five decades ago, 'The Exorcist' proved to be a box office juggernaut—and caused America's editors to devote a special issue to the film.

“Wildcat,” the new film by Ethan Hawke about the life of Flannery O’Connor, is not your typical biopic, a fact that seems entirely appropriate since O’Connor is not your typical writer.

James Dickey's public persona of fighter pilot, champion athlete and hard-drinking woodsman who wrote of “country surrealism” gave him an everyman appeal, even as he was perhaps the nation's greatest poetic talent.

'Remembering the Forgotten Merton' is a brief biography of Thomas Merton’s brother John Paul, whom Merton fans know primarily through the powerful elegy that Merton composed to mark his brother’s death as a fighter pilot in the Second World War.

In “The Great Divorce,” C.S. Lewis paints a rich, multifaceted picture of the afterlife, one that could teach Christians quite a bit about life on Earth today.