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Musician Nick Cave talks to journalist Seán O’Hagan about his son’s death and the pull of love.

ER doctor Thomas Fisher writes with moral clarity—and a whiff of hopelessness.

Bruce Gordon masterfully weaves together the world that shaped the least-remembered Reformer and the ways he shaped that world.

David Bentley Hart does not get out of bed in the morning to take on small projects. In his most recent volume (which is, as usual, mischievously polemical, dauntingly erudite, and verbose), he sets his sights on John Henry Newman’s conception of tradition as expressed in his landmark work, An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (1845, revised 1878), the publication of which precipitated the Victorian scholar’s conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism and arguably now serves as a major pillar of the Catholic Church’s self-understanding.

A collection of essays invites artists and
theologians into conversation.

Jacques Ellul diagnosed the problem. Paul Patton and Robert Woods offer some solutions.

Based on historical events, Olga Tokarczuk’s massive novel is simultaneously heartbreaking and comic.

The deeper Philip Jenkins takes us, the more layered and fascinating the story becomes.

In Race and Rhyme, associative hermeneutics finds its roots in deep, communal, and highly developed wisdom.

Katherine Rundell’s biography offers something new: she matches the poet’s energy with her own.