Mona Simpson's latest novel unfurls into a stirring cartography of the impacts of a mother’s deteriorating mental health on her three children.

James Baldwin's novels and essays loomed large in the 1950s and 1960s, but they have fallen out of favor with teachers in many literature courses. Is it time for a revival of his works?

Twitter has done its best to make me cynical. But every once in a while, there is a Grimace Shake moment.

At its heart, “Kiki’s Delivery Service” is a meditation on discovering—and pursuing—your vocation.

'People Get Ready' tells how an inner-city Boston parish managed to transform itself into a vibrant church community, an experience that Reynolds believes holds lessons for a new understanding of the role of the parish in Catholic ecclesiology.

Mark Williams has been playing Father Brown for 10 years, but “he never bores me,” he confides.