Gary Pomerantz's detailed exploration of Bob Cousy's career touches on the heroic moments and the bitter failures of the Boston Celtics, including a shameful history of racial prejudice.

Michelle Obama's autobiography is a powerful demonstration of what a strong woman can make of a “reluctantly” public life.

Our shared faith in Christ is a precious inheritance that can by no means be taken for granted but must be re-appropriated ever anew.

Jerome Neyrey's new book displays the many ways in which Jesus was not only “like us in all things” but also definitely a person incarnated in his own culture.

In 'The Dangers of Christian Practice,' Lauren Winner shows that even our holiest religious practices create characteristic distortions.

Frank Bidart tells us he came the closest to finding himself in his own poetry—and even then, not really.