Despite his popular image, Jack Kerouac was born and died a self-identified Catholic.

'The Testament of Mary' tells an intriguing though not always convincing story. It's main character—and to an extent its only character—is an old woman fretting about her past as she tries to get the facts straight.

Julian Barnes's new novel is a philosophical mystery that morphs into a morality tale.

On E. B. White and Henry David Thoreau.

I don rsquo t read on the beach The beach is for long walks and quick plunges into the surf I am at Sea Bright the northernmost town on the Jersey Shore for two weeks and I brought Pat Conroy rsquo s My Reading Life with me perfect company as I sit in the front room or on the balcony overloo

Thanks to former Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent for sending this remembrance of George W. Hunt, S.J.