'The Vice of Luxury,' by David Cloutier, and 'Distant Strangers,' by Judith Lichtenberg

Corita Kent (1918–86) deserves recognition alongside her far more famous secular counterpart, the pop artist Andy Warhol. But remarkably, no one has published a comprehensive biography of the artist who was seen by some as the “rebel nun.”

Jon Hassler's sacramental imagination brightens a world grown gray with the banality of reality television and teenage paranormal romances.

'Junípero Serra,' by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz

The beauty of Snape’s character is that he does not allow other characters’ doubts to dictate who he is.

Phil Klay won the National Book Award for fiction in 2014 for his collection of short stories, Redeployment. Writing in The New York Times, Dexter Filkins called it “the best thing written so far on what the war did to people’s souls.” A veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, Mr. Klay s