In her eight novels and many short stories, Alice McDermott has brought a distinctly Catholic imagination to her fiction—but not in the same way as her forebears.

In 1943, William F. Lynch, S.J., tackled a question many America writers would explore before and after: Is there such a thing as a Catholic imagination?

Andy Warhol remains an enigma.

Abortion polls tell part of the story.

A wide-ranging interview with Andre Dubus on literary influences, faith and the process of writing.

Jon Hassler wrote novels that examined with infinite compassion the lives of the residents of small-town Minnesota.