COLUMN. Faced with the growing controversy, particularly in Mexico, surrounding Jacques Audiard's latest film, the question is, rather, why so many people have been so offended by it, questions ...

Pan’s Labyrinth” embodies the core tension of Catholic life: the push and pull between the eternal and the worldly.

Alan Hollinghurst has a well-earned reputation as one of the great stylistic writers of our time. If this praise sounds overly exuberant, consider the beguiling opening paragraph from a prior novel, ...