I write because I breathe. It's what I do. I've always known that it was what I would do. As a child, making weekly trips to the local library and creating my own magazines, I knew in my heart that I ...

Phil Klay is pictured in this undated photo. He is a Catholic author whose works include the New York Times best-selling collection of short stories “Redeployment.” (Credit: Courtesy Hannah Dunphy via ...

THERE are no living American Catholics who are major writers. By two rules of thumb I suggest that American Catholic writers have been found wanting: individually they have failed to produce (1) a ...

The ingenious debut treatise from legal scholar Ossei-Owusu asserts that the ways in which American lawyers are schooled and trained are a crucial factor in maintaining the Continue reading » The Book ...

New York based Irish American writer Peter Quinn is pictured in a file photo. (Credit: CNS photo/courtesy Don Pollard.) Listen A reader familiar with New York-based Irish American writer Peter Quinn’s ...

Editor’s note: The following essay appeared in the Dec. 7, 1935 issue of America. I had the good fortune the other night to dine (in the best Catholic tradition) with two outstanding Catholic writers.

I’m not asking the above question, mind you. Myles Connolly asked and answered it in something of a jeremiad in the pages of America eight decades ago—and yet some of his criticisms remain relevant ...

Layman who began his writing career in his school days continues to serve the Church through his creative work ...

Last week’s “In Person” introduced readers to Piers Paul Read, best known for his 1974 non-fiction work Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors. Now he’s got a new drama hitting bookstores, only it’s ...