Recommendations from the editors of America magazine, plus some poetry too!

Colson Whitehead's award-winning novel is a timely reflection on who gets to write history...and who gets to erase it.

Leslie Woodcock Tentler's new book is both a rigorous and laudable effort to cure American Catholics of the illusion that our desires have no history.

Ted Gioia's new treatise on music and musicians covers everything from the Big Bang to gangsta rap.

Ross Douthat explores the cultural, economic and political torpor that he thinks has emerged in the United States over the last half-century.

Two recently published books from Oxford University Press address the variegated and multifaced character of sin in the New Testament.