In 'Barnum: An American Life,' Robert Wilson, editor of The American Scholar, shows how P. T. Barnum morphed into (as he styled himself) “The Children’s Friend.”

The stories in David Means’s latest collection demand and deserve the reader’s full participation.

Two new books show that Christian approaches to salvation are not as monolithic as one might think.

I do not mean that we need to stop having children. I mean that we need to stop engaging in the practices that have coincided with the widespread usage of “parent” as a verb.

What makes 'Mass Exodus' a must-read is careful attention to the qualitative analysis related to disaffiliation from the church.

In her brilliant new book, Martha Nussbaum argues for a thrilling vision: the whole biosphere conceived and treated as a “cosmic city,” in which humans carefully do their part to ensure that the capabilities of all creatures can be activated as much as possible.