Literature Archives

Alana Massey’s “All the Lives I Want” lifts up our shared humanity.

In Gospel Fluency, Jeff Vanderstelt wants to help every believer speak the gospel in the stuff of everyday life.

Comfort Detox is a valuable stepping stone for people who are disquieted with their own excess but are not sure what to do next.

Eric Metaxas has written an inspiring book on American exceptionalism. But does he blur the details of history?

Nordic noir’s bone-chilling revelation is that no matter how far we progress as a society, we are limited and weighed down by our corrupt natures.

If there is a faithful interpretation of Endo’s Silence, it comes because the martyrdoms of the Japanese Christians and Garrpe may successfully testify against the self-justifications Rodrigues offers for his apostasy.

Two acclaimed works of fiction challenge the notion that mere survival ought to be humanity’s highest goal.

It turns out that it is possible to write a hilarious novel about addiction. Eve Tushnet pulls off such a feat (along with offering plenty of insight) in her book on a Reality TV show set at a rehab center.

In Imagine, Steve Turner proposes that Christians ought to learn to understand art better and should feel able to participate in the arts more freely.

Is God’s definition of love restricting us from happiness or freeing us from the self-love that entangles us?

Here are a few of 2016’s best children’s novels; they’re sure to fill you and your loved ones with a sense of childlike joy and wonder.

Nancy Guthrie’s overwhelming message in What Grieving People Wish You Knew is to enter into the awkwardness and difficulty of loving grieving people.

Dystopian stories must be told because when humanity tries to create Eden, Death follows.

All this focus on personal greatness has its drawbacks.

Sometimes an artist has to choose between living a principled life or just living at all. The novelist Julian Barnes imagines the high cost of this choice for the composer Shostakovich under Stalin.

Novels by Patricia McKillip and Ilana Myer suggest another role that poetry might yet play in our society: the project of re-enchantment.