A very sunburned literary editor looks back on some Catholic Book Club columns of yore.

John Kennedy Toole's only novel was published after his death—but quickly became a classic of American comic fiction.

In her eight novels and many short stories, Alice McDermott has brought a distinctly Catholic imagination to her fiction—but not in the same way as her forebears.

One of the great Catholic thinkers of 20th-century America is too often overlooked: William F. Lynch, S.J.

Noted primarily for his work on religious liberty, John Courtney Murray, S.J., provided much of the basis for theological and political reflection on the relationship between church and state on these shores through his voluminous writings.

Andre Dubus wrote short stories and novellas about the brutal truths and miraculous moments in life—and more than a few dealt with the joys and sorrows of fatherhood.