Andre Dubus wrote short stories and novellas about the brutal truths and miraculous moments in life—and more than a few dealt with the joys and sorrows of fatherhood.

A wide-ranging interview with Andre Dubus on literary influences, faith and the process of writing.

Fintan O’Toole reflects on the last 64 years in Ireland—a time when Irish life was almost completely transformed.

When Fay Vincent Jr. resigned as the commissioner of Major League Baseball, he turned to the pages of “America” in his effort “to try to put all of the current mess in perspective.”

Theophilus Lewis wrote hundreds of theater reviews for “America,” though he got his start as a critic for a magazine central to the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s.

Jon Hassler wrote novels that examined with infinite compassion the lives of the residents of small-town Minnesota.