Books

The new Ireland, courtesy of Anne Enright

Even in the best of times American popular understanding of Muslims has been informed more by stereotype and suspicion than reality But since the terrorist attacks on Sept 11 2001 many perceive the divide between ldquo us rdquo and ldquo them rdquo as a chasm too wide to cross Anti-America

Michael Novak’s ‘No One Sees God,’ reviewed

The conversion of Anne Rice

The fifth general conference of the Latin American bishops Celam in 2007 was a significant event in the history of the church in the Western Hemisphere Its report Disciples and Missionaries of Jesus Christ That Our People May Have Life in Him may be among the most interesting missiological tex

A forgotten prelate gets his due

A history of the destruction of books, reviewed

The Portugese writer Jos eacute Saramago received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998 in part for novelistic fables that powerfully critique social institutions and human failings Now 86 years old Saramago has based his latest novel Death With Interruptions on the extraordinary premise that

Searching for reasons for the assassination of JFK

Do ntilde a Teresa de Ahumada y Cepeda who became simply Teresa de Jes uacute s following her midlife conversion had a personality so large and intriguing that it is no surprise that a novelist has chosen this Spanish Carmelite as a character around whom to weave a fictionalized story Yet histori