Books

The reissue of Day's 1948 book is full of high-grade ore and some unforgettable passages that demonstrate not only Day's gripping reportage but her luminous humanity and spirit.

A new two-part anthology about Vietnam chronicles the few positive legacies of a terrible war: the literary excellence and moral outrage of the writing it inspired.

Distilling out of daily life uncommon conveyances through deep channels.

In their work, Andreej Szczypiorski and E. Annie Proulx both engage a great sweep of national and cultural identity in crisis.

Reading David Lodge is like overhearing a confession, an elaborate, improbable, and deliberately shocking confession.

Shusaku Endo's belief in Jesus, both man and God, is the essential truth of his Catholicism.

Thomas Keneally's varied fictions root us realistically in the suffering and incompleteness of the world.

Muriel Spark is a writer who has confronted the great questions of existence and come away, if not with answers, then with considerable illumination

By watching and listening and, most of all, by writing, Andre Dubus continues to celebrate the human spirit in which it is possible to see the power of God and God's grace at work.

From Paul to Francis, the saints are "in" again, and Anne Fremantle presents "the lives of thirteen heroic saints."

From the archives: 'Outer Dark,' McCarthy’s second novel, begins in the teeth of an incestuous affair that is thick with Gothic atmosphere.

The quality of “voice” and the implied character in voice that makes Frost's short poems dramatic.