News&Reporting

The first full-fledged biography of Muriel Spark.

Scenes from a Parish, airing on PBS tonight, grounded in everyday reality

Isabel Dalhousie's latest adventures.

Much of 'Calvinism' is simply Christianity

Thomas Pynchon's private eye.

Short Reviews of Jesus, The Middle Eastern Storyteller, Miss Betsey, and The Sleepy Little Alphabet.

Short reviews of Jericho's Fall, Religion in the National Agenda, and Naming Infinity.

One to take on vacation and two for the shelf at home.

Short reviews of Predestination, The Spartacus War, and How Rome Fell.

The Baader-Meinhof Group and the quasi-religious character of terrorism.

Short reviews of The Divine Commodity, Something's Rising, and The Reason For Crows.

What the Roman Empire and the newspaper industry have in common.

Short reviews of Believing Again, Giants, and A Community called Taizé.

Baader-Meinhof, One Square Inch of Silence, and Wrestling with God.

A superb chronicle of the slave rebellion led by Spartacus.