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The award-winning author of 'Bad Feminist' and 'Opinions' on Britney Spears, 'A Little Life,' and the Book That She Read in One Sitting.

The 2023 Annual Casey McIlvane Memorial Lecture will feature author Christopher Beha. Historians and theorists of the novel have long understood its rise to be bound up with the rise of secularism. What does it mean for a religiously-inclined artist to practice this secular art? What is it about the form that has attracted religious […]

Frank Doyle grew up in Brooklyn, and Brooklyn is cool these days. So you have to assume Frank Doyle is kind of cool, right? Not really.

Novelist and editor Christopher Beha discusses faith, writing and great literature with Mary Grace Mangano.

Adam Parshall “I fantasize about it,” Craig Finn says of his first post-Covid gig with The Hold Steady, still unscheduled, like all gigs and all things. “There’s a celebratory but also a physical aspect of the shows we play,” he continues, and he is both absolutely correct and vastly understating the point. Finn, 49, is a tornado of bliss and poetry onstage, a guy who begins each show looking like the creative writing professor he once was and ends each one an unlikely rock god. In every last encore, Finn tells the crowd, “There is so much joy in what we do up here,” and while ...