Emma Donoghue's new novel unfolds over the course of All Hallows’ Eve, All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day—with a chatty cast of priests, nuns and philosophizing orderlies running about—adding to the sanctified air.

Khyati Y. Joshi's new book shines “a light on Christian privilege and its entwinement with White privilege."

In short, Greenhouse argues, “Something is fundamentally broken in the way many American employers treat their workers.”

Science fiction writers continue to turn to religious characters, imagery and ideas to sort things out.

There is no way to explain the success of Catholic school athletes without taking into account a wide range of factors—historical, sociological and, yes, spiritual.

Jane Leavy chronicles Babe Ruth’s life and times, with a heavy emphasis not only on the culture Ruth played in, but the ways he radically altered that culture, with the help of his visionary agent Christy Walsh.

Writer William Trevor never shied away from something like the Gothic, the nearly horrific side of everything from romantic passion to parenthood.

Hunger strikes raise thorny political, philosophical and even spiritual questions.

In 'Beyond 15,' Jonathan Rosenblum scolds Barack Obama for being “more invested in bailing out the financial sector than in expending political capital for workers’ rights.”

Either way, if Trump’s candidacy is a problem, pundits on the right and left have thought of it specifically as a “white trash” problem.