Blanc, the atheist, isn’t a caricature of his kind. The more advanced Biblical references he makes reveal what is today a ...

Rian Johnson explains how he drew from his Presbyterian background as a "youth group kid" to create Wake Up Dead Man. For research, the filmmaker had dinner with six Catholic priests, which led to ...

In “The Guilty Vicarage,” an essay on detective fiction, W.H. Auden argues that the most successful detective novels take place in an apparent Eden (the cozy village, the ivied college, the country ...