When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity - the brain - and finally into a patient and a new father. What makes life worth living in the face of death?
Best known as journalist, playwright, novelist and poet, G. K. Chesterton never thought of himself as a theologian. Nevertheless he could not help thinking theologically - even when he was making jokes - and his writings illuminate the profoundest religious themes.