It's not easy to say something new about the end of the world

Gogol and the making of Russian literature

A murderous saint's life

A new doubting Thomas finds few answers

The restless journey of a Holocaust descendant

Andre Dubus and the lessons of brokenness.

Religious language, believing and non-.

Elizabeth I in her own words

Visionary writing despite the loss of sight

Thou shalt not covet

Four Catholic writers and their shared vocation

Piecing together the ancient poetic fragments of Sappho

The menace of nanotechnology in storytelling and science

Arguing About God, Arguing with God: Remembering Lew Smedes

In both senses of the word

A young convert to Orthodox Judaism converts to Christianity

Hitchens and Orwell

Reflections on a sometimes deadly sin