Rejecting the implications of the label “minority,” Carrie Gibson tells the entire 500-year history of Spanish-speaking peoples in what is now the United States.
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Review: Can social justice activism go too far?
Over the course of the mid-to-late 20th century, notions of social justice went very, very wrong.
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A Martha’s Vineyard mystery from Richard Russo
A detective story is not what we have come to expect from Russo, who generally operates at the same, easy-going speed as his male protagonists.
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The overlooked wisdom of Arab women journalists in the middle east
Zahra Hankir has compiled a collection of gripping and illuminating essays by Arab women reporters who have worked in the Middle East and North Africa. Hankir’s goal was to bring attention to “underreported tales and the women who tell them.”
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Review: A tragic story of ambition and despair
“An Orchestra of Minorities” is a profoundly tragic story of ambition and despair and how both come from the struggle to love.
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Review: Melinda Gates and her struggles with the Catholic Church
Melinda Gates’s new book is not an attack on Catholicism but an honest accounting of how she came to be in conflict with the church while living her faith.
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Review: 13 ‘misfits’ who spoke truth to power
13 stories, each a mini-biography of one of those great souls whose faith in Jesus inspired and necessitated and sustained their work toward a more righteous world.
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Review: A lifetime of studying the three great monotheistic faiths
Patrick Ryan, S.J., has produced a book that is a word of culmination and ratification. It is a kind of extended amen at the end of a long life of scholarly faith and faithful scholarship.
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Remembering the life and poetry of Marie Ponsot
During her lifetime, poetry turned into a vocation that helped Marie Ponsot achieve her true essence.
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Review: Comedian Pete Holmes’ sense of wonder comes alive in a new memoir
Pete Holmes discovers a new meaning to Christ’s words “Go and do likewise,” not as a moralistic command, but as a call to an awakening, a conversion, the practice Catholic tradition calls the “imitation of Christ.”