Christopher Beha and William Giraldi. The novel of religious faith—or, rather, its disappearance—has been much in the literary news lately. Since the death of Walker Percy a quarter century ago, no ...

This Thursday, Oct. 19, is the “Memorial of Saints John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, Priests, and Companions, Martyrs” in the lectionary for Mass used in the United States. Those of us south of the ...

In 'A Theology of Fiction,' Cassandra Nelson explores the legacy of Sr. Mariella Gable, who argued that fiction could be both Catholic and quality literature. Gable's advocacy for literature sometimes ...

Author Thomas John Vail's debut novel, Rome's Religious Quicksand: Do Heaven's Guarantees Still Exist, is a compelling and timely work of Catholic fiction that blends family drama with theological ...

The pleasures and secrets of library archives: “The New York Public Library’s Schwarzman building is most famous for the ornate and cavernous Rose Reading Room, now reopened after two years of ...

Rust Hills, Esquire’s longtime fiction editor, once had an ambitious and provocative idea: capture the most influential people in writing and publishing in a single graphic. The July 1963 issue of ...

As Adam Schwartz recounts in The Third Spring, when modernist author Virginia Woolf heard of the conversion of her literary fellow traveler T.S. Eliot to Christianity, she wrote him off, considering ...