New catechism texts for the Indian Catholic Church aim to help children experience God´s love, publishers say. "The purpose of religious education is to help the child experience the love of God ...

A 2000 year old novel, considered a “gossip-y” account of the Roman Emperors’ personal lives, has entered the book's bestseller charts. The Lives of the Caesars, originally written in Latin ...

58 Canadian works of fiction coming out in spring 2021 Eddy Boudel Tan on what inspired his latest novel, The Rebellious Tide Eddy Boudel Tan is a writer based in Vancouver, where he co-founded ...

On Saint Brigid’s weekend, this exclusive essay honours some of bravest women you may never have heard of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Rome in May 1938. Photo: Getty Visitors to Sant ...

Some Roman Catholic prelates have done all they could to discourage U.S. circulation of the Dutch catechism (TIME, Aug. 18), a lively, undogmatic compendium of doctrine that reflects the most ...

Amy Tan, whose new book The Backyard Bird Chronicles, started as a private nature journal of birds in her garden in Sausalito, came to birding as a response to American politics, specifically, ...

The pages are lively with aunts and uncles, neighbours, schoolteachers, friends, lovers, conversations, arguments – and books ... his family in that gritty Roman apartment.

Since then, citizens of the internet have been sharing their own personal ‘Roman Empires’, whether it pertains to celebrity pop culture or a particular series of fantasy books and sometimes ...

Like the characters in Tan’s books, my parents and their friends would play mahjong and trade stories of their lives before they came to America. While on a book tour in Cambridge, Tan recorded ...

In two books about backyard birding, novelist Amy Tan and New York Times contributing opinion writer Margaret Renkl make a case for the pleasure to be had from closely observing birds without ...

On Reddit, there are dozens of discussion forums centered around the best books about the Roman Empire, with many recommending Mike Duncan’s “Storm Before the Storm” and Mary Beard’s more ...