Reza Aslan rsquo s study of the historical Jesus has been hovering near the top of The New York Times best-seller list for several weeks It is written in an engaging style and reads like a historical novel But the author does not want it to be taken as ldquo fiction rdquo but as a serious work o

The dysfunction that plagues Washington D C is usually attributed to ideological division and the attendant unwillingness to compromise A contrary explanation is discernible in Mark Leibovich rsquo s chatty book This Town According to Leibovich ldquo the city far from being hopelessly divide

Many retreat houses feature a labyrinth pilgrims wend their way through a circuitous though orderly route metaphorically tracing the ever ancient ever new challenge of cultivating union with a mysterious deity By contrast Peter McDonough rsquo s The Catholic Labyrinth a book that sketches a sp

A collection of essays by Ignacio Ellacuria

If Seamus Heaney digs with his pen Erskine Clarke casts his like an expert fly fisherman In this book By The Rivers of Water chapters end with sharp forebodings of what lurks around the next bend Clarke reels us through the lives of Leighton and Jane Wilson a married missionary couple who leav

When the murderers of Archbishop Thomas Becket sliced off the top of his head and scattered his brains on the pavement stones of Canterbury Cathedral they could hardly have imagined the fascination their victim's life would attract for centuries to come.