Alice McDermott

Craving the spiritual in Alice McDermott’s new novel

By Kimberly Winston — November 7, 2017
(RNS) — While McDermott's novels are often concerned with Irish Catholics in her native Brooklyn, this book — her eighth — is her most specifically religious.

Fall religion reading: Heavy-duty edition

By Kimberly Winston — October 4, 2017
(RNS) Get serious with this list of 10 new or recently released books with religion (or no religion) between the covers.
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