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In 1985 - when I was 7 - the young kids in my neighborhood had a "swear club." To join, the initiate had to hide behind a tree with the assembled members and say every swear wo ...

During the height of the pandemic, the Spanish priest Julian Carron published a book posing the simple yet loaded question: "Is there hope?" "The pandemic," he posited, offered ...

Freedom, here, abides in this cell before me,bound to a crude, stone throne of eternityto reconcile Creator with creationand prevail against the proud, spiteful nations. Terrified, here, I quake in Hi ...

It's 1973 and Mona Glass is a 24-year-old amateur tennis star in a long-running affair with Saul Plotz, her former college professor. Her parents like Saul and desperately want the free-spirited Mona ...

Paterson, New Jersey, 1979: Jamie Palmieri is an up-and-coming patrol officer, three years out of the academy and frustrated with his slow rise to detective. That all changes one frigid night in Janua ...

In San Antonio's grand expanse,Where sixty thousand held a trance,The Final Four took thrilling flight,Florida and Duke locked in a fight, But oh, the Gators, strong and true,Their will unbent,

The instruments of darkness tell us truths ~ William Shakespeare, Macbeth Preface Paterson, NJ Paterson is often described as physically static; a time warp rooted by a skyline of once vital mills. So ...

From the BQE she caught the holy hell of it, the way smoke was streaming from burning steel. It was cinema, bad fiction, a plot point dreamed up as too ridiculous for art and discarded somewhere else.

The sharpest and best insight at the core of New York Times columnist Ross Douthat's recent book, Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, is that religious disaffiliation is effectively the n ...

In a letter to Henry Lee penned a little more than a year before his death, Thomas Jefferson famously described the Declaration of Independence as "an expression of the American mind." Wit ...