Books

The journalist and former television news producer Richard M Cohen knows firsthand the toll of chronic illness He described his battle with multiple sclerosis and colon cancer in Blindsided Living a Life Above Illness a chronicle of courage and survival In his new book Strong at the Broken Pl

As both an astronomer and a Jesuit Guy Consolmagno is well situated and qualified to comment on places where faith and science interact He does not explain the title of his latest book God 8217 s Mechanics anywhere in the text but clearly implies that scientists and engineers study figure out

Philip F Gura is one of America 8217 s leading historians a prolific scholar who has dealt with a wide variety of subjects from the twang of banjos to the angry God of Jonathan Edwards His research and writing on the American Transcendentalists 8212 a 8220 club of the like-minded 8221 as

Did anything happen at Vatican II?

Although most Americans regard Sept 11 2001 as a day that changed the world the investigative reporter Craig Unger would argue that the presidential election in 2000 served as a point of convergence for certain groups of people who helped create what he calls 8220 the greatest foreign policy d

'Rome and Canterbury,' reviewed

Over a century ago in 1905 an unknown young writer named James Joyce was having a hard time finding a publisher for Dubliners his bitter collection of tales about the home town he had already left physically at least for good Shortly before this in a famous letter to his lover Nora Barnacle

As the 150th anniversary of the Civil War approaches we also anticipate the 75th anniversary of a remarkable transformation in the historiography of the abolition of American slavery In the late 1930s the Works Progress Administration decided to conduct interviews with the last surviving former s

'Classics for Pleasure,' reviewed

While Thomas Norman DeWolf 8217 s 18-chapter memoir Inheriting the Trade accomplishes an artful merging of historical explication with biography and travelogue not until Chapter 16 does the author 8217 s central thesis emerge Only then when DeWolf informs readers of his own abuse of privilege