Books

Cardinal Bertone on 'The Last Secret of Fatima'

Redeemed A spiritual Misfit Stumbles Toward God Marginal Sanity and the Peace That Passes All By Heather King Viking 238p 24 95 A brutally honest moving and heartfelt memoir Redeemed is an account of ongoing recovery conversion to Catholicism and a journey across terrifying borders into a new

A review of Ron Hansen’s novel about Gerard Manley Hopkins

A skilled author can introduce ideas that change a reader rsquo s consciousness In Disciples of All Nations Lamin Sanneh delivers just that Before engaging directly this important book let me briefly digress to illustrate such a ldquo perspective changing rdquo moment from personal experience

'The Race Card,'reviewed

A review of E.J. Dionne’s ‘Souled Out’

The poetry of Robert Creeley 1926-2005 is less a poetry of song and narrative than an artistry of language and thought syntax and consciousness syllable and word Benjamin Friedlander rsquo s edition the first ldquo selected rdquo poems since Creeley rsquo s death brings together verse from

The Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez was heading back to his office one day when he came upon a homeless African-American man playing Beethoven on a battered violin at a busy street corner Lopez learned that the man Nathaniel Ayers had once been a promising student at the famed Juilliard S

The challenges of living a long life

A Palestinian mystery, reviewed