Preachers who read widely get the same benefits out of it as the rest of us, but their needs may be more acute. Imagine standing up weekly in ...

Philip Kerr’s eighth Bernie Gunther novel lives up to expectations.

Richard Mouw, president of Fuller Theological Seminary, has two goals in this book. First, he wants evangelicals to stop demonizing Mormons. ...

In the ten years of our marriage, my husband, Paul, and I have moved six times, often across the country. From Dallas to Los Angeles to Dallas ...

Editor's Note: This week we begin the fifth round of Science in Focus. Our subject for May is the Fox TV series Terra Nova, which premiered ...

Time was when everybody understood a translation to be a more or less word-for-word transfer of meaning from one language to another—"or ...

Settle down to read with the kids--or grandkids!

You are what you refuse to eat. However broad we may claim our tastes to be, all societies have foods that disgust or intimidate them: substances ...

The Hunger Games was first published in 2008. Less than four years later it and its two sequels have 26 million copies in print, and a Hollywood ...

Academics from East Coast Universities who speak of cultural "exile" to the Midwest are deluded. A carefully planned and executed trip to New ...

Keep this anthology at your bedside.

You are walking to your car through a secluded parking lot. Out of the corner of your eye, you glimpse a loitering youth whose racial profile ...

A few years ago, I attended a conference in Montana held by the Foundation for Research on Economics & the Environment (FREE). One of the speakers ...

Many faces, many images, many fragments of lecture and conversation crowd my mind. The poet Scott Cairns was reading from a book in progress. ...

Espionage & the boredom of motherhood.

Ross Douthat explains at the outset that he is going to tell us "the real story of religion in America." Which is what, exactly? "For all its ...

A few weeks ago on Twitter, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove mentioned that he had an early candidate for Book of the Year: Gandhi and the Unspeakable: ...

Marjorie Malley's Radioactivity is a well-written and scholarly book intended to appeal to a general readership and explain a subject that is ...

Alan Gilbert's Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence argues that there were actually two American ...

Murder most foul + child-care issues.