When Petra Costa’s film The Edge of Democracy was released in 2019, I found it was so resonant and effective that it claimed a permanent place in my heart and mind. Nominated for an academy award, the ...

The award-winning journalist and staff writer for The Atlantic follows up his New York Times bestseller American Carnage with this timely, rigorously reported, and deeply personal examination of the ...

Graham Greene, leading Catholic novelist of the English-speaking world, is an artist provocative and provoking in his apologetics. The Power and the Glory is one of his best novels. Although first ...

The English writer Isabel Colegate, who died last year, will be most widely remembered for her 1980 novel “The Shooting Party.” An inspiration for the film “Gosford Park” and the TV series “Downton ...

My first copy of Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory cost me $1.65, which will tell you how long ago I first read it, roughly 40 years. And I still own it, which should tell you something else.

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Our latest song of complicated patriotism—a ‘60s protest song from Phil ...