Mantel’s portrait of More is of a self-serving whiner with a death wish. But what must always be remembered is that she is creating fiction.

Flannery O’Connor was, like many people of her time, “a walking contradiction when it came to matters of race.” 

Cairns is a rare figure in American letters: a religious poet free of mawkish piety.

Annalena Tonelli moved to Kenya in her 20s to work as a teacher. Her desire was to live among the poor as one of the poor.

Recommendations from the editors of America magazine, plus some poetry too!

Colson Whitehead's award-winning novel is a timely reflection on who gets to write history...and who gets to erase it.