John T. McGreevy’s exhaustive “Catholicism: A Global History From the French Revolution to Pope Francis” explains how debates within the church got so fierce.
The novelist talks about her Pulitzer-winning book, which includes one chapter written as a PowerPoint presentation, and Stephen Fry discusses Greek mythology.
Nicola Yoon, the author of “Everything, Everything,” “The Sun Is Also a Star” and “Instructions for Dancing,” recommends a few of her favorite Y.A. love stories.
In his new memoir, “Solito,” the poet Javier Zamora recounts his experience traveling from El Salvador to the United States, by himself, when he was a young boy.
“There was an upsetting aura of righteousness in the room” when the group read Iris Murdoch’s “A Fairly Honourable Defeat,” says the religious scholar, whose latest book is “Sacred Nature.” “It did not deserve this response. I have never returned.”
