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Critics complain that Francis is acting like a dictator and his pontificate is in crisis. They wonder if it’s now time for him to take a vacation

While most public considerations of terrorism are colored by nefarious political ambitions, this is a vital work on jihadism in the West

A survey shows the sharp contrast between how Republicans and Democrats treat religion

Someone has to say no

Does Charlie Gard's treatment offers hope of benefit that is proportionate to the suffering Charlie is experiencing?

Poet Patricia Lockwood considers the perils of having a Catholic priest for a dad

Can we trust our memories and what's in our heads? Dan Chaon's novel ‘Ill Will’ pursues this question to thrilling effect

Is Elif Batuman's vivid first novel “autofiction”?

‘There is a hunger. It was a lesson she had learned and then forgotten across the years...’ An excerpt from Alice McDermott’s forthcoming novel

Besides Claude McKay’s status as a canonical poet of the Harlem Renaissance, there’s another side of him that rarely comes into public view

Democracy depends on them, as the Founding Fathers seemed to know