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 ...

Dana Gioia, Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Public Culture at the University of Southern California and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. (CNS photo/courtesy Star Black) Few ...

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.

This essay was given as a talk at Union Theological Seminary in New York, during a conference on “Catholicism and the Public Square,” sponsored by Commonweal magazine and the Faith and Reason ...

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 ...

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 ...