In 'American Mirrors' Deborah Solomon presents a thoughtful—if a touch heavy-handed—biography of Norman Rockwell.

David Kertzer’s 'The Pope and Mussolini' examines the place of the church under the dictatorial regimes of the 20th century.

Duro Kolak, the narrator and fulcrum of Aminatta Forna’s excellent fourth book The Hired Man, is a patient man, loyal and solitary.

Dozens of well-known American and British actresses have portrayed religious women in film Some of them mdash Jennifer Jones in ldquo The Song of Bernadette rdquo and Susan Sarandon in ldquo Dead Man Walking rdquo mdash won Academy Awards for their performances There have been nuns who broke i

There have been many famous letters and letter-writers in history One thinks immediately of Cicero who made it an art form Then of course we have St Paul who filled his letters to early Christian communities with advice and doctrine news from the front and occasional scoldings One also thin

When speaking against the death penalty to secular audiences I try to work in a plug for the unborn So once as a guest lecturer at Princeton I lamented the passing of Paul Ramsey a Princeton ethicist who demanded that abortion at any gestational stage be distinguishable from infanticide I equa