My book emphasizes massive complexity. I speak broadly about religion lacking cultural resonance, not “vibing” with young people’s perspectives, and conflicting with the millennial zeitgeist.

In “The Last Supper,” Paul Elie explores how controversies over artists like Sinéad O’Connor and Keith Haring paved the way for today’s political and cultural rifts.

The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America. By Sara Franklin. Atria Books; 336 pages; $29.99 and £20 Judith Jones edited literary and culinary greats and saved Anne ...

Culture is not just a map of the structures and forces that order our society. It’s what people make on top of, in between, in opposition to, and in collaboration with those things.