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Msgr. John Tracy Ellis, 1905-1992, was a professor of church history and theology who taught at the Catholic University of America from 1938 to 1964 and from 1977 to 1989. From 1964 to 1977 he taught at the University of San Francisco. Earlier he was at St. Viatour College in Bourbonnais, Illinois, and the College of St. Teresa in Winona, Minnesota. (Courtesy of Catholic University of America, University Libraries, Special Collections) Few things are as satisfying in the life of a Catholic journalist as to be on the receiving end of the kindness of scholars and clergy who he...

Mark Athitakis Special to USA TODAY When Philip Roth began his literary career in the 1950s, he started at the University of Chicago, where he said his ambitions were simple: “bibliography by day, women by night.” That’s something of a blunt organizing principle for Blake Bailey’s hotly anticipated biography, "Philip Roth" (Norton, 912 pp., ★★★ out of four). It’s a well-researched and engrossing book, but at times a frustratingly narrow one, despite its heft. The arc of Roth’s life is American literary folklore now. Born in Newark, New Jersey, he scandalized the Jewish-Ame...

Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, has seen his fair share of ugly things. His alcohol and drug addiction sent him spiraling for years and led him to cook his own crack cocaine. But he's seen a lot of beautiful things, too – namely the love he shares with his father and brother Beau Biden, who died of glioblastoma in 2015.  Biden wrote about all of it in in his new memoir, "Beautiful Things" (Gallery Books, 255 pp.), out April 6. His candid chronicle of his drug- and alcohol-fueled binges and relationship with Beau's widow, Hallie Biden, are sure to shock – but don't let all the ...

Online pile-ons and how the story of Easter offers a path of hope We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Simon Smart Normal text size So reads the opening line of Kristin Valdez Quade’s celebrated short story, The Five Wounds, that appeared in The New Yorker in 2009 and this week will hit the shelves as one of the most anticipated novels of 2021. The story of Jesus on the cross is surprisingly relevant in the modern world. Credit:AP A glittering array of writers are lining up to praise it, and readers can’t wait to hear more of Amadeo, t...

Norton W.W. & Company, Inc., 2021. A common but useless question in writing-craft interviews asks how budding fiction writers distinguish between ideas for short stories and those for novels. In the early stages, how can a writer know whether a character needs 8,000 words or 800,000? The answer is that there is no answer. Plenty of novels — and this is not an insult — could be compressed into stories; plenty of stories have the intellectual and emotional heft of novels. Some novels start their lives as stories, then refuse to stop growing. Kirstin Valdez Quade’s excellent debut novel, ...