Some last-minute gift ideas: books!

Kathryn Jean Lopez on her career, her new book and her ongoing drift from conservative politics to Catholic spirituality.

Rest In Peace: Johann Baptist Metz was the theologian who made the modern academy.

In his new book, Christopher Steck recommends a relationship of kinship to animals rather than one of dominion or stewardship.

'Body Leaping Backward' is a melancholy, atmospheric memoir that reads as a sort of urgent confession.

At a public memorial service in the cathedral, the site of the funerals of James Baldwin and Duke Ellington, several friends of Ms. Morrison provided their recollections of her talent, warmth and sense of humor.