National Book Award-winner James Carroll's first novel in nine years is set in Berlin in 1961. IIt's during the time of the Berlin wall, and three Americans, high school students in Wiesbaden, cut classes to go to the May Day celebrat...

A clear-eyed and personal examination of the Catholic faith, its leaders, and its complicated history by National Book Award–winner James Carroll  James Carroll turns to the notion of practice—both as a way to learn and a means o...