The stories in David Means’s latest collection demand and deserve the reader’s full participation.

Humanities education is imperiled and undervalued in an a society that worships short-term usefulness, writes Santiago Ramos. But there is a rebellion in defense of educating the soul.

New American poetry that spans the globe.

The current opioid crisis has strong parallels to drug addiction in Victorian England, writes Nathan Beacom, and the struggles of the Catholic poet Francis Thompson.

Mr. Pearce, an English-born Catholic critic, talks about the latest developments in research on Shakespeare's faith life.

A Catholic school in Tennessee has removed the Harry Potter books from its library after the school’s priest decided they could cause a reader to conjure evil spirits.