Two new books give a multi-hued portrait of Seamus Heaney as he pursued a late-20th-century vocation as a public advocate of poetry and as a somewhat private advocate of Catholicism as a folk culture.

In 'Liberalism as a Way of Life,' Alexandre Lefebvre argues that for secular people, liberalism, if practiced intentionally, can be the grace they are seeking in their ordinary lives.

in 'Finding God Along the Way,' Christine Marie Eberle masterfully weaves together Scripture, poetry and Ignatian spirituality.

In 'Cultural Catholics,' Maureen K. Day works to answer the question of who “cultural Catholics” really are—and how to connect with them.

Jared Lemus’s robust, melancholy debut short story collection 'Guatemalan Rhapsody' gives us characters who strive for love, respect or mere survival in tales that unfold in Guatemalan towns or among immigrant communities in the United States.

In 'We Have Never Been Woke,' Musa al-Gharbi seeks to untangle competing threads of discourse around identity and social justice.