By Emily Eakin His new book, “Aflame,” tells of his decades visiting a silent Benedictine retreat. “You learn to love the world only by looking at it closely,” he wrote. Here are the year ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

A novel of British nobility; a memoir of American aristocracy. A new book traces shifts in the nation’s treatment of aging adults — for better and for worse. By Dwight Garner Try this short ...

It’s a sequel of sorts to her 1939 book “Moses, Man of the Mountain” and focuses on the Judean king Herod the Great. In the New Testament, he’s portrayed as a slaughterer of innocents ...

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Latecomers are seated at the discretion of management. The Book of Mormon follows two young missionaries who are sent to Uganda to try to convert citizens to the Mormon religion. One missionary ...

The Daily Mail Books department chooses their favourite fiction of the century. In this new book by Professor John S. Tregoning he gives you the tips and tricks to get you as close to living ...

This Jubilee of 2025 is also the 25th ordinary jubilee since the first one in 1300. Thus, we can justly call it the "jubilee of jubilees." Your browser does not ...

and — for the first time in the history of jubilees — inside Rome’s Rebibbia Prison. “The dark door of time, of the future, has been thrown open. The one who has hope lives differently ...

The start of the year offers ample chance to dive into a good book. From lighthearted reads to cure seasonal blues to novels that transport you to warmer climes, the criteria for a good book is ...

Jubilees have perhaps always been a privileged moment for popes to share their vision of history. On this subject, it is interesting to revisit what St. John Paul II wrote before the Jubilee of ...

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