Mr. Pearce, an English-born Catholic critic, talks about the latest developments in research on Shakespeare's faith life.

A Catholic school in Tennessee has removed the Harry Potter books from its library after the school’s priest decided they could cause a reader to conjure evil spirits.

In his new biography of Henrik Ibsen, Ivo de Figueiredo describes the story of the suffering artist, his father’s bankruptcy, his years as an apothecary’s assistant and his role as writer and theater manager.

James Cone's autobiography shows that theology does not arrive out of a sterile doctrinal laboratory but from the pains, sufferings and triumphs of the people of God.

Students who read literature have done so most of their lives because of beauty, not because of literary theory.

Books for every kind of reader are featured in our Spring Books special literary issue.