Five decades ago, 'The Exorcist' proved to be a box office juggernaut—and caused America's editors to devote a special issue to the film.

James Dickey's public persona of fighter pilot, champion athlete and hard-drinking woodsman who wrote of “country surrealism” gave him an everyman appeal, even as he was perhaps the nation's greatest poetic talent.

'Remembering the Forgotten Merton' is a brief biography of Thomas Merton’s brother John Paul, whom Merton fans know primarily through the powerful elegy that Merton composed to mark his brother’s death as a fighter pilot in the Second World War.

Despite his public antipathy toward Catholicism, a number of Brian Moore’s novels dealt subtly and deftly with the profound emotional impact of struggles with faith.

From Brian Moore's earliest and best known novel, 'The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne,' to his last, 'The Magician’s Wife,' the mystery of belief has haunted his best fiction.

Why can’t Hollywood reinvent ‘The Exorcist’? Money, lots of it, can be the only reason why any studio would invest in this franchise.