A selection of recent poetry books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.

It was like a metaphor for the universe that God created — a universe mostly made of dark matter and dark energy with scarce life. The barn was a simple place close to the earth and the focal ...

What if the universe is God’s acrostic? He’s sneaking bits of proverbs into seismic variations; Abbreviating psalms in flecks of snow. Try to read them, says a comet ...

“He reminded us who are of faith of the weakness of any ‘God in the gaps’ or deistic view of God, and pointed theologians towards a God with the universe in the palm of his hand.” Professor Hawking ...