How to portray the Holocaust on stage and film.

Alternate History

A Man Alive in the Midst of Death

Lessons learned in the church of U2.

What's real in espionage fiction?

Four recent films show a battle for control among men, women, and machines.

A sociologist's surprising encounter with fundamentalism.

Three Christians trace their roots back to the Hebrew Bible-and encounter God's present-day chosen people.

350 years of Jewish life in America.

The films of Douglas Fairbanks.

In the Turkish city of Kars, schoolgirls forced to abandon their headscarves are killing themselves. A poet who is also a journalist is sent to cover the story.

Why Lewis was a Protestant.

American Catholic intellectuals in the Progressive era.

John Wilkes Booth assassinated the president. Democracy proved harder to kill.

So you think American history from the Great Depression through World War II holds no surprises? Read on.

The inevitable and preordained trajectories of evolution.

Conflict and conversation.

Faith, history, and the virtues of evangelical diffidence.

Nostalgia for nature's seasons in a climate-controlled world.

I Want to Have a Space Alien's Baby