The writing of Wilfrid Sheed offers a rare kind of euphoria: a sense that he is determined to give the reader as much amusement as he had writing the piece.
Men in the industrialized world seem to have lost their groove. We need a new vision of masculinity adequate to our current social and economic circumstances.
Those who would follow him, Jesus tells us, must love their enemies. Those words issue a challenge for all Americans interested in redeeming democracy’s promise.
Beverly Gage's biography of J. Edgar Hoover challenges the traditional historiographical perception of Hoover's role in America's "long national nightmare."
Christ was not worshiped for the manner of his death but because he was raised from the dead. Any history of the Christian martyrs must understand that fact.
A new history of international financial institutions raises the question: What balance can be found between sovereignty and international economic cooperation?
Poet Rodger Kamenetz’s search for God expands the spiritual vocabulary of our time, crossing the borders of faith, driven by compassion and a self-sustaining wit.
An essential new memoir conveys the fundamental emotions behind child migration—love and longing, loss and trauma—from the perspective of a young Salvadoran boy.
In ‘Common Good Constitutionalism,’ Adrian Vermeule argues with straw men and cites blog posts. The book may rally his followers, but it won’t add to their number.
Some books are best read in fall, after the smell of salty air and sunscreen has returned to memory, and as you find yourself wondering where exactly summer went.
‘Midwood’ is both intimate and distanced. It offers us access to dreams and erotic experience; it keeps us at a remove through irony and syntactical oddity.
