John Kennedy Toole's only novel was published after his death—but quickly became a classic of American comic fiction.

This story has no moral, only a great joy for Mrs. Toole, and a great sadness.

In her eight novels and many short stories, Alice McDermott has brought a distinctly Catholic imagination to her fiction—but not in the same way as her forebears.

One of the great Catholic thinkers of 20th-century America is too often overlooked: William F. Lynch, S.J.

A dearth of classical education causes everyone’s education to suffer.

In 1943, William F. Lynch, S.J., tackled a question many America writers would explore before and after: Is there such a thing as a Catholic imagination?