The stories in Valerie Sayers's new collection are populated with characters who strive to hang on to something good.

The question Lewis proposed is analogous to the one we have to deal with now: What use is it to study during wartime? 

The recognition of Louise Glück with the Nobel Prize in Literature was a bright spot in 2020 for her fans and her fellow poets alike.

For Liane de Pougy life was a banquet, and she took seconds of every dish.

Over the summer the Catholic Book Club read John Kennedy Toole’s darkly comic novel, 'A Confederacy of Dunces,' and this fall we are finishing up our discussion of John Howard Griffin’s 'Black Like Me.'

In a new biography of Robert Stone, Madison Smartt Bell argues that Stone’s career involves both the American dream and the search for meaning.