For the reader whose misfortune it is not to have yet discovered Kelly Cherry's poems , this is your lucky day. Cherry's new book offers a generous sampling of the poet's work, culled from six previous volumes.

A review of Charles Taylor’s “A Secular Age”

Alice Munro is at the height of her powers as a short story writer in this collection, navigating with extraordinary agility the border between memoir and fiction.

One could do worse than devote some time during Lent to 'lectio divina' and reading the Scriptures prayerfully.

Postapocalyptic novels were once popular back in the last millennium when we all worried about the Bomb and what it might do to us.

Roth’s language is mostly matter-of-fact, but often enough he launches into eloquent spasms of what the Germans call erlebte Rede (lived discourse), where writer and character breathe as one.