Castillo writes with gorgeous precision and sensitivity about his experience as a boy growing into a man in a country that will not recognize him, his family split across borders.
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Review: A college president looks back
Mark W. Roche is the Joyce Professor of German and former dean of arts and letters at the University of Notre Dame.
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Mining the partnership between science and religion
The book is characteristically careful, methodical and precise—hallmarks of Haight’s writing style and theological methodology. Readers familiar with the development of Catholic theologies of nature and creation will find much to converse with here, as will philosophical theologians.
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Review: How the fall of Rome led to the modern world
Walter Scheidel argues in “Escape From Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity,” that out of the Roman Empire’s ashes rose modernity.
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Review: How should Christians address anti-Semitism in their communities?
This book is meant to arouse Christians, both their pastors and congregations, to the agonies and injustices perpetrated against Jews in the past and presen
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More than snakes and shamrocks: St. Patrick, retold
A new look at one of Catholicism’s most popular saints.
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Review: Movie stardom might be your destiny, but it does not solve your problems.
Dan Bevacqua’s debut novel, the darkly comic ‘Molly Bit,’ follows the rise and fall of a Hollywood star.
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Review: Abraham Heschel’s life of anguish and hope
Edward K. Kaplan’s book on Abraham Heschel will help readers feel a portion of the anguish Heschel endured in his lifetime. But even in his anguish, Heschel found not just spiritual consolation, but profound hope from his deep faith.
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Emmanuel Macron, France’s precocious politician
Emmanuel Macron not only wants to “reform” France but to “transform” it.
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A love song for Ernest Gaines
Ernest Gaines wrote a number of classic novels, including “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.”