In 'Thoreau’s God,' Richard Higgins takes the reader on a fascinating journey through Thoreau’s extensive work, looking at the ways the philosopher thought about the divine and the human relation to the divine.

The editors of 'America' have been opining on what you should read for over a century. Some of their suggestions have aged better than others.

Many of my acquaintances have given up “reading about something that didn't happen.” But fiction has long-term and concrete value, both mentally and socially.

It has been 56 years since humankind went to the moon—but it's still on our minds.

July 16 marks 80 years since the first atomic bomb was detonated. The specter of nuclear annihilation has been with us ever since.

Whenever I teach a seminar on T. S. Eliot’s work, I spend the first day of class on ‘Marina.’