The essential Merton is all of these books taken together. Read them all, and in this order, if you can.
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Review: Jewish leaders see providence in Christianity, too.
The decades since the Second Vatican Council and the declaration “Nostra Aetate” have seen much fruit in the form of Jewish-Christian collaboration and dialogue.
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Review: The unexpected collaboration between President Kennedy and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
In ‘The Last Brahmin,’ Luke Nichter presents Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. as a man who, from cradle to grave, loved his family and his country, the ideals of both of which he tried to live up to his entire life.
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Review: The rituals of a Brooklyn Catholic community
‘Lifeblood of the Parish’ is an ethnographic look at Italian-American communal rituals in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.
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A New Orleans jazz hall and its history in the fight for Black freedom
In post-Civil War New Orleans, Creole leaders won elections and oversaw the desegregation of public schools, a short-lived experiment destroyed after Reconstruction.
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Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘Klara and the Sun’ is a haunting tale of love, loss and…a robot.
The robotic narrator of Kazuo Ishiguro’s new novel takes us into a dystopian U.S. future.
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‘Shuggie Bain’ is a novel of queer, working-class, Irish Catholic life
Douglas Stuart’s novel is an appropriate winner of the Booker Prize for the desolate year in which March seems never to have ended.
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Mary Gordon’s new novel candidly portrays abuse and revenge
The veteran novelist has an esteemed track record of finely crafted stories that explore the human propensity to sow injury rather than beneficence.
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Review: Ecotheological river poetry and the funk-loving Jesus of the Deep South
In the poems of ‘Delta Tears,’ Philip Kolin blends ecotheology and Scripture with pleas for social justice.
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Review: Never forget the suffering and injustice of the gulag
Julius Margolin’s memoir of his time in the gulag tells his experiences through a shattering series of stories.