Keeping FaithObserving an encounter between Catholic and Buddhist monks in 1996 at the Abbey of Gethsemani, near where he grew up in rural Kentucky, Fenton Johnson found himself unable to make the sign of the cross. His distance from his childhood faith had become so great he considered himself a rational, skeptical man that he could not participate in this most basic ritual. Impelled by this troubling experience, Johnson began a search for the meaning of the

but the more time they spend together

5: A Christmas Affair

the four will be drawn to the same destination—the city cemetery on the outskirts of San Francisco—where the collision of lives and secrets leaves no one unaltered

albeit imaginary meals

with no map and no rules

A nurse for 25 years

YA Problem Novel: Fans of Laurie Halse Anderson’s Wintergirls and other unflinching

Proofs and Theories is not a casual collection

Lugging his man-boobs along for the ride

Author Enrique Joven centers his compelling

plants' surprising reaction to music

questioning whether any war can be morally acceptable in the modern era