• Religion

    On Grief

    First Memories, First Lessons: Chyana Marie Sage on Grief, Narratives, and Cree Spirituality

    The Author of "Soft as Bones" Offers Up Her Life in Fragments

     
    By Chyana Marie Sage  May 28, 2025
    Apocalypses

    And If This Is(n’t) the End of the World? Why We Dread—and Desire—Apocalypse

    By Alex Foster  May 14, 2025
    Catholicism

    You Don’t Have to Believe in God to Find Hope in Pope Leo

    By Aron Solomon  May 9, 2025
    Indigenous Lit

    An Indigenous Theory of Water: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on Rivers as Teachers

    By Leanne Betasamosake Simpson  May 8, 2025
    Irish History

    An Immodest Proposal: How Britain’s Relentless Imperialism Created the Irish Potato Famine

    By Padraic X. Scanlan  May 7, 2025
    Native American History

    How Christian Missionaries Sought to Erase Native American Culture and Identity

    By Mary Annette Pember  April 23, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Hub

    What if the final meeting between V.P. Vance and Pope Francis took place in a Dan Brown novel?

    By James Folta  April 22, 2025
    In Memoriam

    The Most Literary Pope:
    Requiescat in Pace, Francis

    By Nick Ripatrazone  April 22, 2025
    Palestine

    Words as Borders, Weapons, Traps: Sarah Aziza on Being a Palestinian Writer Today

    By Sarah Aziza  April 22, 2025
    The Hub

    What to read next if you loved Sinners.

    A vampire's reading list.

    By Brittany Allen  May 14, 2025
    Cults

    Leah Sottile on Amy Carlson, aka Mother God, and the Creation of a New Age Cult

    By Leah Sottile  March 26, 2025
    Israel

    The Former Head of Human Rights Watch on the Challenges of Reporting on the Abuses of Israel’s Government

    By Kenneth Roth  March 17, 2025
    The Occult

    A Revolt Against Rationality: On the Utopian Dreams of Early 20th-Century Occultists

    By Raphael Cormack  March 14, 2025
    Irish History

    From Philly to Derry: On the Americans Who Armed the IRA During The Troubles

    Ali Watkins on Vincent Conlon’s Secret Life in the United States as an Operative and Gun-Running Irish Rebel

    By Ali Watkins  March 11, 2025
    Soccer

    Liverpool Never Forgets: On the Legacy of the Hillsborough Disaster

    By Oliver Smith  March 10, 2025
    Spirituality

    Bare Before the Sublime:
    A Short History of Nudity As Spiritual Practice

    By Philip Carr-Gomm  March 4, 2025
    Nonfiction

    From Bowie to Baseball to Bitcoin: Ten Nonfiction Books to Check Out in March

    By Literary Hub  February 28, 2025
    Video Games

    Cult of the Cowboy: Inside the Toxic Adoration of an All-American Obsession

    Rachel Wagner on Video Games, Violence and the Enduring Allure of the Vigilante Hero

    By Rachel Wagner  February 26, 2025
    The South

    Secrets of the Deep South: In Search of Hidden Family and Collective History in Georgia

    By David Levering Lewis  February 12, 2025
    Gaza

    Mohammed El-Kurd on the Complexities of Victimhood, Resilience, and Portraying Palestinian Genocide

    By Hanna Phifer  February 11, 2025
    On Grief

    Matter, That Curious and Complex Illusion: Grieving for the Dead in a Universe of Atoms

    By Guido Tonelli  January 23, 2025
    Palestinian Literature

    Betty Shamieh on the Next Generation of Palestinian Fiction

    The Author of “Too Soon” Considers Her Novel in Relation to Etaf Rum, Hala Alyan, and the Politics of Influence

    By Betty Samieh  January 22, 2025
    Spirituality

    Pico Iyer on What We Can Learn From the Monastic Life

    By Pico Iyer  January 21, 2025
    literary criticism

    The Danger of Lowering Your Heart’s Volume: On the Writing of Ross Gay and Amy Leach

    By Jane Zwart  January 15, 2025
    Christianity

    Religion Meets the Swinging Sixties: How Western Christianity Confronted a Decade of Change

    By Diarmaid MacCulloch  April 16, 2025
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