If anyone doubted the damage a shallow, sanitized Marian ideal of womanhood could inflict—on women, on faith and on the church—Margaret Atwood’s 'The Handmaid’s Tale' shows us.
Junot Díaz, the Pulitzer prize winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, talks about the role of religion in the Dominican Republic and the political power of literature.
One cannot begin to understand the current deterioration of American race relations without confronting the enduring realities of white supremacy present in the case of Emmett Till.