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Why Boredom Matters: Education, Leisure, and the Quest for a Meaningful Life Boredom is an enduring problem that we tend to respond to in one of two ways.…

James Tuttleton on “The Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil” by Andrew Delbanco.

You might recall that I offered a few words here recently about Charles Portis, who’s best known for writing “True Grit,” a 1968 novel about a precocious girl in the

Promoting a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles

Lost in the Cosmos was derided when first published 40 years ago yet remains an irresistible test of the extent to which we remains mysteries even to ourselves.

Alice McDermott is back with her ninth novel, joining the elite Catholic company of Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Walker Percy and Flannery O’Connor.

The good news for anyone whose literary tastes have been strongly influenced by the Catholic novels of Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Francois Mauriac, Georges Bernanos and more is this: The new Alice McDermott novel, 'Absolution,' has arrived.

The post offers a glimpse into the philosophy of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and a warning about the kind of world they’re trying to build.

A center-hall cottage in the Carrollton neighborhood is on its way to becoming a local landmark for its distinction as the last residence of John Kennedy Toole, the author of the Pulitzer-awarded novel “A Confederacy of Dunces.”  The Historic District Landmark Commission approved the building at 7632 Hampson St., at its October meeting for further […]

'Big Fiction' is a book full of cogent analysis, ambitious argument, juicy quotes from insiders and a demonstration of the central role of Catholics in American publishing.