The story of the mass migration of six million African Americans

'Faith, Interrupted' is a heartfelt account of a spiritual quest that continues to this day.

Diane Ackerman has long been a prolific observer of the myriad wonders of nature.

Genocide has claimed hundreds of thousands of African lives in recent decades In his ambitious new book Tracy Kidder the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer takes readers into the heart of that awful chapter in human history through the eyes of a Burundian medical student named Deogratias mdash known

Many authors have addressed the tricky subject of forgiveness The 2007 book Amish Grace How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy offered a particularly insightful account of how the Amish forgave the gunman who shot 10 schoolgirls in Nickel Mines Pa Now Paula Huston has written a worthy addition to t

Michael O rsquo Neill McGrath O S F S had never heard of the Catholic nun and gospel singer Thea Bowman while she was alive but once he discovered her as we learn in this splendid short memoir she transformed his life ldquo I like to tell folks that I have a little black nun inside of me rd

The Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez was heading back to his office one day when he came upon a homeless African-American man playing Beethoven on a battered violin at a busy street corner Lopez learned that the man Nathaniel Ayers had once been a promising student at the famed Juilliard S

The journalist and former television news producer Richard M Cohen knows firsthand the toll of chronic illness He described his battle with multiple sclerosis and colon cancer in Blindsided Living a Life Above Illness a chronicle of courage and survival In his new book Strong at the Broken Pl

In his provocative new book The Stillborn God the historian Mark Lilla tackles the centuries-old debate about the nexus between politics and religion After 1 500 years during which religion and government were inextricably intertwined political philosophers began to question the wisdom of that

Ayaan Hirsi Ali was living in Holland on Sept 11 2001 when jetliners piloted by Muslim fanatics crashed into the World Trade Center killing thousands As a Muslim Ali had urgent questions Was this really Islam Did Islam permit even call for this kind of slaughter Did I as a Muslim approv