Augustine: Conversions to Confessions may be informative to the nth degree, but it's not dense. Robin Lane Fox says he wrote this biography for all readers -- even those in a post-Christian age ...

James Joseph O'Donnell, . . HarperCollins, $26.95 (416pp) ISBN 978-0-06-053537-7 Though labeled a biography, this book on the fourth-century North African saint is better read as a complex study ...