Continuing the debate on programs like POLST (Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment).

The time I’ve spent with asses was well spent / and taught me reticence, humility, / and reverence for their meditative lives; whereas...

Revisiting Arthur Miller’s crucible, Irving Finkel’s ark before Noah, Karl Ove Knausgaard’s pre-Flood Norwegian forest, and meeting Lampedusa’s siren.

Compelling visions of what it means to live, eat, and pray now from Ben Lerner, Dan Barber, Louise Gluck, N.T. Wright, and Roy M. Anker.

Rereading your old favorite books can be revealing—and so can walking, drinking, God, and church history.

The reduction of character and motive to diagrammable banalities seems of a piece with this film’s lack of interest in creating anything resembling human emotion.

Dinaw Mengestu’s novel considers what it is to walk around in an America that holds no promise for you, while Matt Fraction elevates the comic book to new heights.

A feisty novel, a formidable tome, and the latest from “a scholar of history who can really write”—there is a great deal to be learned.

Readers interested in Russia and Ukraine, CIA analysts and Soviets, Doctor Zhivago censorship, and more will enjoy these fascinating histories of the Cold War.

Much of what the cardinal says is unpersuasive and unappealing, but he speaks frankly, just as Pope Francis has asked of his bishops.