What to Make of Miracles
In a new book, Elaine Pagels searches for the narrative origins of Jesus’s most wondrous acts.

In a new book, Elaine Pagels searches for the narrative origins of Jesus’s most wondrous acts.
Chaim Grade’s Sons and Daughters rescues a destroyed world.
In her novels, the South Korean Nobel laureate returns again and again to her country’s bloody past.
In a new novel, France’s famously abrasive author progresses from barbed satire to a spiritual-conversion narrative.
Long a fearless critic of Israel, Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi has made wrenching portraits of her nation’s suffering since October 7.
His parables aren’t supposed to make sense.
A close look at the words being shouted at protests on campuses across the country reveals why some see the pro-Palestinian cause as so threatening.
The brilliant novels of Helen Garner depict her generation’s embrace of freedom, but also the sad consequences.
In her hands, scripture becomes a precursor to the novel.
George Eliot took up the question of Jewish self-determination in her last novel, Daniel Deronda, and arrived at a surprising answer.