For the reader whose misfortune it is not to have yet discovered Kelly Cherry's poems , this is your lucky day. Cherry's new book offers a generous sampling of the poet's work, culled from six previous volumes.

Alice Munro is at the height of her powers as a short story writer in this collection, navigating with extraordinary agility the border between memoir and fiction.

One could do worse than devote some time during Lent to 'lectio divina' and reading the Scriptures prayerfully.

Postapocalyptic novels were once popular back in the last millennium when we all worried about the Bomb and what it might do to us.

In his 90th year, the indefatigable historian John Hope Franklin has written his life story. More than any other scholar, Franklin has made African-American history an essential part of American history.

Always try to do too much must be taken as one of Salman Rushdie's mantras and he certainly lives up to it here This sprawling story flashes back and forth from pre-World War II Strasbourg to present-day Los Angeles touchesat least fleetinglyon every major world crisis from the Holocaust to