What’s the Bible for? We asked dozens of writers to respond to this question in seven words or less, as well as to expand on ...

Direct violence refers to an event—war, famine, an aggressive physical act—that poses an immediate threat to life. The ...

Gentlest alchemy of air, the early magnolias hold their fragrant lamp-bowls aloft at dusk, defying March. Can’t be snowing, yet it is— in the cloud spaces, the downrush of cold    halts abruptly as a ...

What’s the Bible for? We asked dozens of writers to respond to this question in seven words or less, as well as to expand on ...

In Knife, the novelist goes back to Chautauqua, where he was nearly killed in a 2022 attack.

“Do you have any idea the kind of risks a woman like me takes every time she agrees to have a little fun,” the Lady (Willa ...

What’s the Bible for? We asked dozens of writers to respond to this question in seven words or less, as well as to expand on ...

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I was probably halfway through divinity school when I turned to my husband and said, “I think I have a very fundamentally Christian mind.” My husband, raised in an almost completely secular home, ...

Jennifer Carlson, who teaches sociology at Arizona State University, is a noted expert on US gun culture. By my count, this is her third full-length work on the subject, in addition to a coedited ...

What is love? It’s a simple question that writers and artists have asked repeatedly through the centuries, from Bernard of Clairvaux and Mildred Bangs Wynkoop to Tina Turner and Haddaway. It’s also ...