Isaac Fitzgerald’s collection of essays Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional isn’t a Catholic memoir. Except when it is.

The central concern of the Rev. James Heft in his new book is not only how “to preserve the continuity of the Catholic intellectual tradition, but also recognize how it might be adapted.”

Shehan Karunatilaka's new novel echoes elements of several all-time classics, including 'The Divine Comedy,' 'Alice in Wonderland' and almost everything by Kurt Vonnegut, whose voice and vision can be felt throughout.

In 'Our Hearts Are Restless: The Art of Spiritual Memoir,' Richard Lischer explores classics of "an intimate genre, perhaps the most intimate.”

More than the costumes and settings, it is that humanity at the heart of Molly Shannon’s comedy which makes it Catholic to the core.

'The Passenger' and 'Stella Maris,' Cormac McCarthy's elegiac, disputatious and deeply odd pair of new novels, offers a typically offbeat take on American culture and society.