Arts & Culture

Editor of the Library of America edition of the “Little House” books, Caroline Fraser won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for “Prairie Fires,” her comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder.

St. Marie of the Incarnation, a French Ursuline nun sent to establish the order in New France in the 17th century, has not yet delivered all her secrets.

One of the intractable complications of sailing on the Pacific Ocean, we are told very early in the drama “Adrift” (STX), is that, no matter how skilled the pilot, even on a well-appointed vessel, isolation produces hallucinations.

A cinematic grand slam of sorts happened to Graciela Rodriguez Gilio, whose maiden voyage in the film world, “Beyond the Sun,” was screened at the Vatican last year with Pope Francis in attendance.

With its brief but excessively graphic scenes of bloodletting, the otherwise mildly interesting sci-fi thriller “Upgrade” (BH Tilt) skirts the outer boundaries of moral acceptability.

An Arkansas Catholic priest is taking his ninja name “Father Flex” national as a contestant on the new season of the NBC reality show “American Ninja Warrior,” debuting May 30.

The story of Father Hartley’s missionary work in the cane fields of the Dominican Republic is presented in the engaging book “Slaves in Paradise” by Jesus Garcia. Originally published in Spanish in 2012, the work has been recently translated and published in the U.S. by Ignatius Press.

Captain Gary M. Rose, awarded the Medal of Honor in 2017 for extraordinary heroism during the Vietnam War, now sees one of his most important personal missions as being an advocate for veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.