The latest novel by Richard Powers, "Bewilderment," is a meditation on love for our planet as well as our individual love for one another.

Reading Andrew Sullivan’s collection, ‘Out on a Limb: Selected Writing, 1989-2021,’ made me realize I’d never heard Sullivan mentioned in conversations about Catholic writers. Why wasn’t he there? And why wasn’t I surprised?

Joan Didion was capable both of conjuring up the horrors of modern life and of offering solace that there was still a point to it all.

Anne Rice's lush fantasy fiction reflected the lifelong influences of religion and spirituality in her life.

John Updike, long one of the nation's finest novelists and short story writers, also wrote extensively about the Christian imagination (and once on his misgivings about Santa Claus).

Diane Wilson’s book 'The Seed Keeper' is an immersive, affecting account of family and history, trauma and survival, seeds and gardening, stories and healing.