Why don't we have fallout shelters anymore? It’s a long story, but an editor at America had something to do with it.

With 'The Sparrow,' Mary Doria Russell imagines an alien world in intimate and fascinating detail—and then sends along some humans with deep questions about faith, God and the universe.

America's editors on some books that might catch our readers' fancy in these final weeks of summer.

A new movie treats the life of Robert Oppenheimer, the "father of the atomic bomb"—and someone whose exploits and commentaries received much treatment in 'America' over the years.

I may not have wanted to talk to my family or friends about Judy Blume’s book, ‘Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.’ But I did talk to God.

When we think of science fiction, lasers and aliens might come to mind first—but it is also a genre in which religious imagination plays a role.