In classrooms and living rooms across the globe, an agnostic or an atheist may be heard to strenuously argue, ‘But the Bible is just a book.’ Similar arguments may be raised against other holy books....

There is a point in the imagination of a creative man when the wrong thing is correct almost simply because it is wrong.

Apparently, faith in life is one thing and faith in literature is another.

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice should create in the discerning male reader a deeply rooted concupiscence for Elizabeth Bennet that springs not from her vivacity or from her wit but from her unerring instinct to...