Series creator Andrew Davies has made explicit much of what is implicit in English novels of the period, including matters of sex and race.

The “Catholic sacramental perspective,” as Mariani terms it, urges the poet to recognize in even “the meanest thing” some glimmer “of inestimable worth,” some sign of the Creator.

Elizabeth Strout examines the human condition in a quiet setting where introspection cannot be escaped.

In her fourth book, The Virgin of Prince Street: Expeditions Into Devotion, Sonja Livingston introduces herself as a “pilgrimess” returning to her childhood church in Rochester, N.Y., after not regularly attending Mass for 20 years.

Richard Powers’s brilliant novel, ‘The Overstory,’ which won the the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a story about people who feel a kinship with all ecological life.

In Solid Seasons, Jeffrey S. Cramer explores the deep friendship between the two literary titans.