Doris Grumbach was an accomplished novelist, literary critic, biographer and memoirist and an early pioneer for her books exploring L.G.B.T. themes. She was also a longtime book reviewer and essayist for ‘America.’

‘Lolita’ may have been canceled, but Vladimir Nabokov remains the godfather of modern prose.

Much ink has been spilled over this presidential election—but not nearly as much as was used in a long history of presidential memoirs and biographies.

Few writers have ever captured in fiction the American religious sense that underlies so much of our history more than Willa Cather.

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI, didn’t think much of bishops’ conferences. Among those who disagreed with the cardinal was Francis A. Sullivan, S.J.

Avery Dulles was widely respected across the Catholic theological spectrum for his scholarly acumen and even-handed, measured approach to complex doctrinal questions.