Timothy Egan's A Fever in the Heartland draws powerful and uncomfortable parallels between the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s and the rise of the MAGA movement.
Jesuit Fr. Jim McDermott interviews Filipino-American illustrator Mike Curato about his controversial middle grade graphic novel Flamer and his experience growing up Catholic.
The co-edited volume Doing Theology and Theological Ethics in the Face of the Abuse Crisis joins a growing body of literature seeking to envision a different future for the Catholic church
Book review: In Lincoln's God, Joshua Zeitz writes a compelling chronicle of Lincoln's evolving relationship to faith against a backdrop of events that influenced the Great Emancipator as much as he influenced them.
Book review: Nina Siegal's The Diary Keepers presents readers with translated excerpts from journals penned principally by seven Dutch diarists, tracking their lives as the five-year German occupation unfolded.
Book review: In Ted Kennedy: A Life, author John Farrell avoids partisan extremes, instead striking a deliberate balance in his portrait of the youngest brother in America's most famous Catholic family.
Money, not religion, is the motivating issue of the Catholic right, according to Mary Jo McConahay's new book. Former NCR editor Tom Roberts' review says the book does U.S. Catholicism a great service.
Book review: The Nature of Theology presents three intellectual problems attacking Christian theology that all relate to the question of what is real. If God is real, then the task of theology is to answer these attacks.