The historian Garry Wills has written better than anybody else about modern America

America's universities sheltered David Foster Wallace—and almost ruined his writing

Republican "revisionists" have played a vital role in preparing the intellectual ground for the Northern Ireland peace process. These traitors to the nationalist cause include a new generation of Irish writers and former IRA volunteers who have reached out to…

The crisis in the anglican church has brought a windfall of converts and public esteem to the catholic church. But Madeleine Bunting argues that catholics are just as embattled and divided over how to combat secularism