Does H. G. Wells still hold any interest for us? David Lodge thinks so.

From the far star points of his pinned extremities

Dan Gheno an artist whose paintings were featured in the 9 11 issue of America recently stopped by America house to offer a reflection about art as a meditation on grief and to discuss the imagery in his work

I don rsquo t read on the beach The beach is for long walks and quick plunges into the surf I am at Sea Bright the northernmost town on the Jersey Shore for two weeks and I brought Pat Conroy rsquo s My Reading Life with me perfect company as I sit in the front room or on the balcony overloo

A provocative new approach to the Spiritual Exercises

“I didn’t want the film simply to be about the ‘life of a saint,’” says Roland Joffe of “There Be Dragons.”