This essay is the first in a series by Father Stayer, a professor of English at Loyola University Chicago, reflecting on essential works of writing, art and music. Mozart once said he would gladly ...

How the early church’s example of public witness helps us avoid the extremes of triumphalism and retreat. Early on in my reading and study of early Christianity, I was struck by an assertion from an ...

There is a singular joy in reading immigrant novels that interrogate the idea of home, especially when explored as an ache or memory one returns to and remakes to suit desires. Migration, displacement ...

How Ecclesiastes diagnoses our doomed quests for happiness. As a writer, David Foster Wallace is probably best known for his gargantuan novel Infinite Jest—the copiously footnoted book many fans have ...