Hebrew school dropout and Bible know-nothing that I am, I thought I had no interest in a novel about the life of King David, but just a couple of chapters into “The Secret Chord,” I saw I had another ...

From Paris to Jakarta to San Bernardino, the specter of suicide bombings and terrorist attacks has shocked and grieved the world in recent weeks. To this reviewer, who was finishing up her reading of ...

Although the long life of David, King of Israel, is chronicled extensively in the Old Testament, the image that most of us have of him was provided by Michelangelo in the form of the world’s most ...

Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks’s “The Secret Chord” bills itself as a bloodstained reimagining of the life of King David. But it initially raises concerns with its awkward beginning. Brooks ...

MARTHA’S VINEYARD, Mass. (RNS) Geraldine Brooks told the PBS television program “Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" that she returns to religious themes because she is drawn to the human quest for meaning.

Geraldine Brooks is a master at bringing the past alive, imbuing history with living, breathing characters who allow us to understand the very difficult task of being human. Whether her novels concern ...

George R.R. Martin’s got nothing on the biblical chroniclers of David, king of Israel. Incest? Treachery and murder? Marriages for love and political alliance? This is the original Game of Thrones. As ...

MARTHA’S VINEYARD, Mass. — Best-selling novelist and former foreign correspondent Geraldine Brooks readily acknowledges that religion keeps “popping up” in her work. Her new historical novel, “The ...

There’s something bordering on the supernatural about Geraldine Brooks. The author of historical novels including “Caleb’s Crossing” and the Pulitzer Prize-winning “March,” she seems able to transport ...

A man alone in a room. Not such an extraordinary thing. Yet as I stepped into the chamber I had a sense of something out of place. My eye traveled around the space, the woven pillows, the low tables ...

In the afterword to her novel, “The Secret Chord,” a fictional retelling of the story of the biblical king David, Geraldine Brooks points to the lack of historical evidence, outside of the biblical ...