A newly discovered novella by Shūsaku Endō, author of “Silence,” sheds light on the author’s conflicted personal life

A new novel (and movie) about Vladimir Putin’s chief spin-doctor explain how the true battle between Ukraine and Russia is not one of warring armies, but of competing narratives

Samuel Perry’s new book “Religion for Realists” challenges American Christians to consider the intrinsically tribal elements of religion

Ben Buchanan’s “The Hacker and the State” (2020) is an instructive introduction to cyberwarfare, yet his characterization of cyber tactics as ineffective at signaling a nation’s intent and resolve is unpersuasive

Jesus “suffered under Pontius Pilate,” but how much blame does the Roman governor of Judea really deserve?

Though Conclave is lazy and pandering, the book version does include an interesting examination of the intrinsic tensions within the Roman Catholic Church as embodying both temporal politics and spiritual guidance

Victor Davis Hanson’s latest book is an instructional tour through the wreckage of destroyed civilizations, providing warnings America should heed to avoid a similar fate

David Austen Walsh’s “The Conservative Movement and the Far Right” commits the historical sin of projecting contemporary categories onto past figures and events

David Bentley Hart’s latest book is the finest rebuttal to the scientific materialist philosophy of mind and reality we have seen yet