In her story O’Connor unites two theological truths: the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in every human being and the presence of Christ in the Eucharist.

How do believers "make God real"? And what effect do these beliefs and practices have on their lives? A new book by T.M. Luhrmann asks these questions and more.

The American dream exerts a magnetic pull in Patricia Engel’s new novel.

The best essays in 'The God Beat' are quietly reflective, deeply informed, subjective but not solipsistic.

With his debut novel, Phil Klay lays out our country's new way of waging war, without clear beginnings, middles or ends and without clear moral goods and evils.

The narrator of 'The Great Gatsby,' Nick Carraway, is the focus of Michael Farris Smith's new novel, 'Nick.'