Pasolini called “Salò” his first film “about the modern world.”

In her new book on 'Red State Christians,' Angela Denker seeks “greater engagement and conversation at a time when America feels pulled to its extremes, when our first national impulse is to block and unfriend anyone who disagrees with us."

The history of “Sesame Street” offers some helpful lessons to anyone trying to spread a message of hope in an all-too-divided world.

Be praised, O Lord, for this bit of mystery, / which lifts, which lightens.

Jon Hassler championed "America’s often struggling middle class” with his rigorous moral vision in his novels.

In his new biography of Henrik Ibsen, Ivo de Figueiredo describes the story of the suffering artist, his father’s bankruptcy, his years as an apothecary’s assistant and his role as writer and theater manager.