In Solid Seasons, Jeffrey S. Cramer explores the deep friendship between the two literary titans.

The horrors of abuse remain offstage, barely spoken of, yet the entire book is haunted by them.

Green’s novel gives a firsthand account of what it is like when a person becomes a brand, when one’s every thought, word and move is scripted, scheduled and scrutinized, ready to be devoured by an audience always demanding more.

In her new book, Meghan Daum recounts how, despite her unimpeachable feminist and liberal commitments, she came to feel not just wrong, but alienated from a new generation of “extremely online” activists.

Seeing Pope Francis as spiritual director means seeing that the pope takes himself less seriously than do his critics and defenders.

Can poetry matter? Yes. Can the Catholic writer today matter? Of course. But it is instructive that Gioia’s essay and book title does not ask the latter question.