Literature

A review of my friend Chad Holley's stunning debut novel, Shield the Joyous.

Was the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki justified? Evan Thomas's new book THE ROAD TO SURRENDER did nothing to quench my doubts.

Wendell Berry's novel, Jayber Crow, gives clues about how to find your calling.

Bishop William Meade, a pro-slavery preacher, may be my ancestor. My novel, Neither Slave nor Free, alters that shameful family story.

James Lord's portrait of Alberto Giacometti helps understand artistic restlessness and discontent.

Washington Black suggests we should oppose racism not because it's morally wrong, but because we care about those who suffer from it.

As part of the research for my fiction project telling the backstory of Philemon in the New Testament, I recently read I, Claudius by...

I’ve been reading Melville’s masterpiece Moby Dick and came across the following passage describing how Ahab’s mania for the great white...