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GEORGE ARCHER | The classical period of Islamic scholarship produced a fruitful and developed body of commentary on the Qur’an, but modern academic study...

BRYAN GIEMZA | If A Prayer Journal were our only window into Flannery O’Connor’s thoughts in her early twenties, what would we say was on her mind?...

PHILLIP SHERMAN | Chimpanzees are prone to extreme violence when confronted with a territorial dispute...

STEPHEN J. WHITFIELD | In the early 1960s Allan Sherman turned a minor comic art — the song parody — into a showbiz phenomenon...

ALISSA WILKINSON | Andre Dubus III has made a career of exploring the lives of people on the margins...

NICK RIPATRAZONE | The editors of Unruly Catholic Women Writers identify Flannery O’Connor as their unruly patron saint...

EDMON L. GALLAGHER | We don’t know where the Bible came from...

DEBORAH JUSTICE | The town square — complete with churches, shops, and public buildings — used to anchor civic communal life...

THOM SATTERLEE | In the mid-1960s, after completing a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the University of Kentucky and traveling across the country to study creative writing as a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford...

WILLIAM JAWORSKI | What is the mind, and where did it come from?...

NIGEL BIGGAR | Most people reckon the 2003 invasion of Iraq to have been immoral for four reasons...

ANN PATCHETT | I imagine I’m fairly conscious of what I’m writing...