At almost every stage of his reporting on Harvey Weinstein, Ronan Farrow says, he encountered roadblocks from NBC’s leadership.
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Review: The complicated Catholicism of Joseph Caldwell
The challenges notwithstanding, Joseph Caldwell presents his life as a Catholic as a gift.
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Isabel Allende’s timely new novel unveils the lifelong effects of war
Isabel Allende’s novel of profound displacement reflects the life of someone who has known displacement as her permanent state.
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Judith Butler defends an aggressive nonviolence in her newest book
Noted philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler discusses nonviolence, grievability and “radical equality” in her book “The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind.”
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Review: When politics becomes a brand
Lauren Duca counters the claim that Gen Z and millennial cohorts are detached from the political process with examples of people moved, primarily by the ascendency of Trump, to advocate for change.
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Review: When grammar becomes a religion
For the title sisters in ‘The Grammarians,’ words are much more than words, and the rules that govern them must be upheld with a believer’s zeal.
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Review: A wild war between zoos
J. W. Mohnhaupt’s first book, The Zookeepers’ War, is an earnest plunge into the extraordinary history behind Berlin’s competing zoos during the Cold War.
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Review: What you want to know about James Martin, SJ (but were too afraid to ask)
A prolific Catholic writer is himself now the subject of a biography from Liturgical Press.
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Review: When #MeToo meets the church
In her new book, Ruth Everhart offers striking juxtapositions of biblical stories, parables and teachings with present-day experiences of sexual abuse in the church.
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Review: Paul Mariani on why poetry sustains us
The “Catholic sacramental perspective,” as Mariani terms it, urges the poet to recognize in even “the meanest thing” some glimmer “of inestimable worth,” some sign of the Creator.