For the Feb. 23, 1974, issue, the editors invited William Peter Blatty, author of the novel The Exorcist and a producer of the film, to respond to America’s critics.    

A poem by Jessica Powers from The Second “America” Book of Verse, a collection of the best of America poetry, 1930 to 1955.

From 1939: It was a busy year for America’s film reviewer, who wrote as many as four reviews a week.

Our reviewers were not enthusiastic about two award-winning plays.

The event that takes place in “The Devil’s Doorway,” a horror film from the Irish director Aislinn Clarke, may or may not be a miracle—but it exposes a truth about who we are, we who crucified Christ.

These two overachievers needed each other, even or especially when they were not together.