Philosophy and parody in a murder mystery
Laurent Binet's latest novel is at once a lecture, a detective story, and an exploration of the limits of fiction.
Laurent Binet's latest novel is at once a lecture, a detective story, and an exploration of the limits of fiction.
Critics are correct that Robinson doesn't offer an alternative to the Christian Right. But she never claimed to.
Heyward was one of the first women priests. But her particular experiences aren't the heart of her memoir.
Yair Mintzker doesn't know. He's more interested in why other historians keep trying to write a 19th-century novel about the 18th-century case.
Jesus wants us to be likable—but more importantly, he wants us to love.
According to Joseph Wiebe, Berry's vision of rural life starts with his reckoning with Kentucky, the Shawnee, and black slavery.
A travel writer's visit to the borderlands of her childhood
There have been many Zionisms over the years. Only one has imagined an eventual end of Judaism.
I was invited to an interfaith solidarity service. Instead I spent the day reading Congressman John Lewis's graphic novel trilogy about the civil rights movement.
Ethicist George Lucas argues that new forms of warfare are "mired in epistemological crisis."