Irene Vallejo's history of books found an audience outside of the academy because it speaks to present concerns and speaks on behalf of many book readers.

Frank Wynne, chair of this year’s Booker judges, noted that translating 'Tomb of Sand' presented “huge challenges” because the novel is about words, language and storytelling, not just characters and plot. Another judge added that it is “safe to say this [novel] is like nothing else you have ever read.”

Mona Simpson's latest novel unfurls into a stirring cartography of the impacts of a mother’s deteriorating mental health on her three children.

James Baldwin's novels and essays loomed large in the 1950s and 1960s, but they have fallen out of favor with teachers in many literature courses. Is it time for a revival of his works?

'People Get Ready' tells how an inner-city Boston parish managed to transform itself into a vibrant church community, an experience that Reynolds believes holds lessons for a new understanding of the role of the parish in Catholic ecclesiology.

Mark Williams has been playing Father Brown for 10 years, but “he never bores me,” he confides.