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An exchange on when heroes run away

Max Porter’s first novel, Grief is the Thing with Feathers, won the Sunday Times/Peters, Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Goldsmiths Prize. His work has been translated into 30 languages, and his new book Shy will be published by Faber next week.

Shortly after the turn of the third millennium, the New Atheists set the stage for the generations who grew up abused by religion. Gen X and baby boomer atheists and secular humanists heralded authors such as Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett for bringing some scientific perspective (as well some sc ...

The Passion offers a pattern for our growth in holiness and the challenges it poses. Pilate going in and out of the praetorium—indicated some seven times—symbolizes the wavering and indecisiveness we often bear toward Jesus.

At the end of WWII, the Transcendental Painting Group was apparently at odds with the American public. Notions of spirituality, nature, and science be...

Drawing on the disorienting experience of becoming disabled, the artist Johanna Hedva explores the feeling of being out of sync with capitalist time.

The message of the story of Lazarus is “Don’t be afraid to die”—especially to those things we cannot bear to even think about losing. Don’t be afraid to release even what seems most necessary—familiar thoughts, comfortable patterns of behavior, habits set in stone, well-intentioned but self-centered expectations—the very things that for each of us seem to be the cornerstone of existence. To truly live, we have to die.

Netflix's new road rage series from A24, which debuts next week, has already garnered some impressive reviews.

How can you talk about peace without taking into account war? Both are subjects not only of Tolstoy’s great novel but also of the two founding epic poems of Greek as well as Indian literature.

"Buckeye," by Scott Russell Sanders, is a well-known essay is about place and the author's father.