A guide to poetry as a spiritual practice offers new poetry readers and skeptics alike a pathway into the literary form.

A lay person’s memoir of the Book of Common Prayer offers a warm welcome into a tradition that reminds us of our part in the story of creation.

Wilco’s fifth album musically captures—and communicates—the essential bodiliness of human persons. Review by Charlie Clark

The five-volume Lightbringer Series is in many ways a typical modern fantasy—but it weaves in a consistently compelling depiction of the life of faith. Review by Sara Holston

Ethan and Maya Hawke's biopic succeeds in bringing to life both O'Connor's vivid imagination and her mundane reality. Review by Whitney Rio-Ross

Spencer Reece’s long-awaited third poetry collection weaves his life in Spain with the questions we all ask about how we can possibly live in this world of ours. Review by Todd Osborne

Modern iconographer Gracie Morbitzer’s new book brings the saints up close and personal. Review by Tulio Huggins

Poet Paul Jaskunas’s new novel brings rural Lithuania and Manhattan to life through the eyes of the emigrants and immigrants he portrays. Review by Peter Lilly

A new independent edition of Shakespeare’s Hamlet takes a strong stand in a scholarly gap but doesn’t close the book on this most studied of plays. Review by Raquel Sequeira

Waxahatchee’s new record celebrates the artist’s roots—and exemplifies the perpetual cycle of trends in American music. Review by Joseph Collum