Using familiar methods of interpretation, Christopher Pramuk translates stories that illuminate paths to the transcendent when communicated through the arts.

In a new biography of Robert Stone, Madison Smartt Bell argues that Stone’s career involves both the American dream and the search for meaning.

Reality is messier than than fiction that reduces historical figures like Hillary Clinton to the sum of her most oversimplified virtues and vices.

For Liane de Pougy life was a banquet, and she took seconds of every dish.

Published in 2002, ‘Year of Wonders’ is set in a 17th-century English plague town.

Khyati Y. Joshi's new book shines “a light on Christian privilege and its entwinement with White privilege."