Dubus was an irascible, loyal, loving, smoking, hard-drinking, hard-punching, tender man, who demanded much of himself and others.

Nowhere is the contrast between Christian love and hellish indifference more stark than in our prison system.

Bob Woodward offers a grim portrait of a presidential administration that seems increasingly unhinged.

How one man made us think differently about religion, violence and desire

R. O. Kwon's novel startles and unsettles with its insights, as its characters act to prove their beliefs to themselves and to the world, with explosive results.

The stories of Machado de Assis let us imagine our way into familiar perspectives and situations from unexpected vantages that enlarge and transform our sense of what is and what can be in this life, and the next.