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Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up by abigail shrier sentinel, 320 pages, $30 Is there such a thing as good therapy? Not for kids, argues Abigail Shrier....

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Traumaby bessel van der kolkpenguin, 464 pages, $19 Before #MeToo, before Black Lives Matter, Bessel van der...

It often seems to me that conservative-tending millennial Catholics are converts, as a rule—a rule to which I am the lone exception. Of course I exaggerate. But convert-capture is...

I expected George Cardinal Pell to be convicted in 2018 on charges that he had committed child sexual abuse, and I expected his appeal to fail before the Victorian...

Harold Bloom, who died in October at age eighty-nine, was The Last Great American Literary Critic. The Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale, he wrote best sellers, appeared on...

John Henry Newman joined the Catholic Church on October 9, 1845, after concluding that the via media of Anglo-Catholicism, which he had sought for years to vindicate, existed only...

Obituaries for Toni Morrison, who died on August 5, remember her as a Nobel Prize–winning novelist, a black woman novelist, and the last great American novelist—never a Catholic novelist....

Regretting Motherhood: A Studyby orna donathnorth atlantic, 272 pages, $15.95 In March, a self-help author tweeted that whereas he once intended to have many children, now, after putting in...

We Believe the Children: A Moral Panic in the 1980s by richard beck public affairs, 352 pages, $26.99 My sister and I were preschoolers in the 1980s. Once upon...

Michael Alig was paroled this May into the world he helped invent. Starting in the summer of 1987, Alig reigned as the most fabulous party promoter in New York,...