“Home” is part of the Robinson’s Gilead-set series. The novel takes place in a remote fictional rural Iowan town in 1956, with a woman returning to her hometown to care for her ailing father. The novel is rife with philosophical references and Biblical quotations, with the central themes being mortality and theology.

Martin Scorsese might make a film adaptation of Marilynne Robinson's Home before doing his The Life of Jesus movie. Following the release of 2023's Killers of the Flower Moon, Scorsese has announced a handful of new projects he either intends or hopes to make. One of these projects is a film adaptation of Robinson's Home, […] The post Martin Scorsese's Next Movie Will Likely Be Home Instead ...

When Martin Scorsese was a child growing up in New York's Little Italy, he would gaze up at the figures he saw around St. Patrick's Old Cathedral. “Who are these people? What is a saint?” Scorsese recalls.

A new docudrama series by Martin Scorsese will debut this Sunday. Titled “Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints,” it’s about the lives of eight different saints — Maximilian Kolbe, Mary Magdalene and Francis of Assisi are among the saints that have an episode devoted to them.