How best to respond to the New Atheists.

Emmanuel Katongole's gift to the church.

Justice Stephen Breyer, civics instructor.

Or are they? A sociologist investigates.

Father Tim alert: the second novel in Jan Karon's new series.

The impact of reading on American women of the Gilded Age.

An ecumenical pilgrimage from Erfurt to Rome.

Ernesto Cardenal's meditations on the gospels, handsomely reissued.

The common people who propelled the American Revolution.

Why are city plans unreadable and unworkable?

Charley "Old Hoss" Radbourn and his most amazing season.

German imperial ambitions and Islam, a century ago.

From the National Poetry Series, a new book by Erika Meitner.

A second look at a controversial evolutionary psychologist.

Jonathan Franzen's first novel since "The Corrections."

A poet's memoir about the impact of Katrina.

Denis Dutton's theory of art.

Martha Nussbaum's case for the humanities.

Tales of chemistry, from the heroic to the absurd.

A visit to Eighth Day Books in Wichita, Kansas.