In 'Requiem,' her fifth book, Virginia Konchan takes the sacred seriously. She’s jocular with her subjects, including God, yet in doing so she demonstrates sustained attention toward the divine. God is among her natural poetic vocabulary.

Joyelle McSweeney's 'Death Styles'—her 10th book across creative and critical genres—rewards our attention.

'Big Fiction' is a book full of cogent analysis, ambitious argument, juicy quotes from insiders and a demonstration of the central role of Catholics in American publishing.

In mid-century America, nuns and sisters were writing poems, and publishing them in the nation’s finest publications.

Marshall McLuhan, the pop culture sage of the electronic world, spent the final days of his life with Frank Stroud, S.J.

“Midnight Mass” feels like a throwback to the world that received “The Exorcist” in 1973.

“The Art of Political Murder” reveals what happened when the government finally had enough of Bishop Juan José Gerardi Conedera.

A willingness to recognize the holiness of the ordinary might be the highest ideal of the solitary life.

If you think being a writer is nerve-wracking, try being a reviewer.

Bobcats, bears, foxes, hares, deer, raccoons, birds and the occasional coyote: Each day we capture wildlife on our trail camera, and my twin daughters continually become more entranced by animals.