Reality is messier than than fiction that reduces historical figures like Hillary Clinton to the sum of her most oversimplified virtues and vices.
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Review: The significant questions of a creative life
Using familiar methods of interpretation, Christopher Pramuk translates stories that illuminate paths to the transcendent when communicated through the arts.
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Review: Richard Wagner’s immense influence on music (and history)
Few artists in history have found as many devotees as Richard Wagner, for better or for worse.
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Jean Giono’s mirror of the present
Jean Giono’s narrators are often grounded in a kind of eternal present, where the coach will always run and a certain tree will always stand, moving us by degrees into the uneasy past of narrative.
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Review: The life and works of author Robert Stone
In a new biography of Robert Stone, Madison Smartt Bell argues that Stone’s career involves both the American dream and the search for meaning.
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She was Paris’s most famous courtesan. Then she found God.
For Liane de Pougy life was a banquet, and she took seconds of every dish.
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The must-read novel for quarantine and social distancing is about a 17th-century plague
Published in 2002, ‘Year of Wonders’ is set in a 17th-century English plague town.
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Review: Gentrifying tragedy on intellectual whim
Terry Eagleton’s new book on tragedy can be a difficult read.
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Review: What would Jesus say about white privilege?
Khyati Y. Joshi’s new book shines “a light on Christian privilege and its entwinement with White privilege.”
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Review: The intersection of ecology and theology
Thomas Berry’s legacy for a rising generation of eco-theologians and ethicists is pervasive.