What Black Elk taught his people was to depend instead on something harder to take away than guns, the trust that prayers in their own language, delivered in their own way, would reach the god they addressed as Tunkashila.

“Who is Mary, what is her role in my life and what could I do to get to know her better?”

Joyce spent thousands of hours with the Jesuits, who figure prominently in his debut novel.

The Spiritual Exercises 'is a work of psychological genius that can only help one live a fuller, richer life,' Hansen says.

What books made the reader a better person when he or she turned the final page?

The 19th century witnessed an intriguing range of tsars, from reformist to reactionary or a combination of both.