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KATIE HEFFELFINGER | Metaphors are powerful shapers of cultural concepts...

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?...

ANDREW LANHAM | Physicists hypothesize something called a naked singularity, a black hole that spins so fast it breaks the laws of space and time and becomes visible...

JAMES LOEFFLER | Only one of the thousands of UN resolutions issued by the General Assembly has ever been formally revoked: the infamous GA Resolution 3379, passed on November 10, 1975...

BRADLEY M. PEPER | The late David Foster Wallace (1962-2008), arguably one of the most innovative and poignant literary voices of the last twenty-five years, was instrumental in the formation of “New Sincerity.”...

PAUL L. HECK | Ibn Hazm of Cordoba, pious scholar and littérateur of eleventh-century Andalusia, may not be well known, but his ideas certainly generate controversy...

EDDY PORTNOY | Efn a zeml un aroys shpringt a yid is a Yiddish expression that conveys that no matter where you go, you’ll find a Jew...

NICK RIPATRAZONE | In “Parker’s Back,” the titular character decides to get a new tattoo to please his fundamentalist wife...