In 'Spiritualizing Politics Without Politicizing Religion,' James R. Price and Kenneth R. Melchin argue that we need Sargent Shriver’s “Catholic streak” now more than ever to break through what they call the “fog of the contemporary culture wars."

A quarter-century after its release, Steven Millhauser's 'Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer' shines a harsh but revealing light on some of the 21st century’s most powerful forces and enigmatic personalities.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's new book is a fierce diagnosis of what continues to tear America apart.

In “The Agitators,” Dorothy Wickenden explores 19th-century intersections of class, racism and patriarchy through the lives of the escaped slave Harriet Tubman and the activists Martha Wright and Frances Seward.

Faulkner’s Southern twist on Joycean modernism has made for popular reading in the wake of the U.S. Capitol insurrection and other spasms of red-state rage.

Something has changed for the novelist John Banville in the last 15 years. In a twist worthy of his own byzantine fiction, Banville has adopted a new persona and writing style, and even—perhaps—a changed attitude toward “the Irish thing” he once derided.

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.