Author and editor Marian A. Jacobs discusses the power and perils of the fantasy genre in a recent interview about her newest book, On Magic and Miracles. The book provides a theology of magic and ...

We know characters in fiction as well as we know many, and perhaps most, of the people around us. Yet fictional characters are often sketched remarkably lightly. In the more than 800 pages of ...

We tend to think that fiction authors just dream up characters out of nowhere. But writers often get their ideas from everyday life, and, being great observers, they often turn people they know or ...