Terry Eagleton's new book on tragedy can be a difficult read.

Religion and spirituality are at the center of Anne Enright's exceptional new novel.

The Galileo story is presented as a narrative of the church denying science. But that implies that science is a single, monolithic worldview. Part history, part science fiction, the Galileo story is less a legend than a myth.

And Isaac, feeling wise, rebuked his father for the sacrifice

& you know how hard I’ve tried to not disappoint you

John D. Feerick’s memoir engages important chapters in American urban, intellectual and legal history.