Imagine a world without English majors. In the last decade, the study of English and history in college has fallen by a third. At Columbia University, the share of English majors fell from 10 percent ...

Pope Francis lamented that ‘a sufficient grounding in literature’ is not a standard part of priestly formation. But some seminaries in the U.S. and abroad seem to be bucking that trend. Seminarians ...

I’m old enough to remember when novelists were big-time. When I was in college in the 1980s, new novels from Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, John Updike, Alice Walker and others were cultural ...