A lesson for Yom Kippur from The Tree of Souls.

A poem is excerpted from the book Jews in America by Hasia R. Diner. It recounts the tale of Hank Greenberg, a baseball legend, who put his religion before baseball when he went to synagogue instead of playing the Yankees in 1934.

Women in Literature, a look at Maya Angelou.

An excerpt from Philip Jenkins new book, The New Faces of Christianity.

By Anatoly Liberman
Some time ago I received a question about the origin of the
word macabre.  This adjective first turned up in Old French, in the phrase dance
macabre.  The story begins with the fresco of the Dance Macabre
painted in 1424 in the Church of the Innocents at Paris.  The English poet and monk John Lydgate
(the approximate [...]

OUP author Rosanna Hertz answers some questions about her new book, Single By Chance, Mothers By Choice.

Ben’s Place of the week is Santa Cruz, California.

OUP author Nicole Rafter weighs in on The Inside Man and heist films in general.

A profile of Gwendolyn Brooks.

Geoffrey Stone kicks off a debate with Judge Richard Posner.