A faultless lyric from 1887 mourns what seems to be repressed gay love ...

Saint John of the Cross (1542–1591) occupies a place in Spanish literature that doesn’t quite match anything in English poetry. He’s not exactly the Chaucer (c. 1345–1400) of the language; that’s ...

She yards out chiffon and sorts the paper pattern for me frock. The kitchen table's a feast of pins, shears and tailor's chalk. Ma steadies and measures me. She cuts the pattern on the bias. Watch her ...

Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.The Journal of Religion is one of the publications by which the Divinity School of The University of Chicago seeks to ...