Allegra Goodman's new novel is her best yet.

A new novel by the master of historical espionage.

The perfect house: then what?

A posthumous book of essays by Clifford Geertz.

Marilynne Robinson takes on "parascience."

A Southern Baptist convert to creation care.

An ethnographer sits in on Bible studies.

A fresh perspective on church-state tensions.

A memoir by Christopher Hitchens.

Two must-reads for soccer fans and neophytes.

A bittersweet elegy for a dying newspaper.

Crossing to Safety

The evangelical hero.

Oxford anthropology in gossipy retrospect.

A teen novel inspired by a church trip to Mexico.

A veteran Vatican-watcher looks ahead.