If things had gone slightly differently for Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, he might have become a living, breathing vindication ...

On February 15, 2013, a fireball exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, with a force twenty to thirty times larger than the bombing of Hiroshima. ...

I was exactly half way through my grad degree, sitting in the audience of my peers' graduation ceremony. Nick Flynn was giving the commencement ...

"On the Fourth of March, 1861, Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office as the six-teenth president from Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney—and ...

Contemporary American poetry has a crush on the crumpled tissues and loose change of the vernacular—idiom, platitude, cliché. ...

In February 2013, a space rock about 20 meters in diameter (the dinosaur-killer, 65 million years ago, was 10 kilometers) exploded over the ...

Worship/Hilarity & Horror/YA Fiction

Ask a Christian if she's blessed and she'll reply—or at least she'll know she's supposed to reply—yes. Ask her if she's happy, and ...

You know this: Earth's oceans are littered with floating pieces of broken ships, busted piers, waterlogged sofas, styrofoam cups, and lost frisbees. ...

If the last five years of American politics have demonstrated anything, it's that Marx's dictum about the modern state couldn't ...

A splendid theme-issue on persuasion.

Editor's Note: This is the second installment of Michael Stevens' two-part piece celebrating the start of a new baseball season, Last week, ...

In a "Letter from the Editor" in the January/February issue, I talked about sorting through stacks of folders stored at home, piles ...

Late April is a time when one reliably hears a little more about Shakespeare than is common, and when otherwise normal people participate ...

Previewing the May/June issue.

Editor's Note: For years now, Books & Culture has marked the beginning of a new baseball season with a piece by Michael Stevens. When the 2013 ...

We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words—to ...

In the early 18th century, a clandestine manuscript surfaced that suggested the world was far older than the mere thousands of years Archbishop ...

It's fitting that one of America's greatest translators of poetry should have been inspired by one of the world's most poetic translations. ...

Telling stories to your “Inner Atheist.”