Review: Paul Griffiths offers an ‘account of Christian flesh’

by Justin Shaun Coyle April 19, 2019

Paul J. Griffiths’s latest book, Christian Flesh, seeks a speculative account “of human flesh in particular and Christian flesh in particular.”

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Review: Robert Caro tells us how he does it

by Kevin Spinale April 19, 2019

In his new book about his work, Robert Caro explains why it takes so many years to research and write his books.

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Review: Is government the problem? Not really.

by John W. Miller April 19, 2019

The nation’s nonfiction bard, Michael Lewis, makes the case that our government is more important—and competent—than we realize.

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Revisiting the ‘Boys’ Life’ books of sports stories

by James T. Keane April 10, 2019

Looking back on sports stories designed to educate a certain class of white American male into the virtues of postwar civic culture.

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110 years of America book reviews

by James T. Keane April 5, 2019

America has published thousands of book reviews over 110 years…and some of them were more spot-on than others…

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Review: Luke and Paul on the road

by Daniel Luzer March 22, 2019

“No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition,” wrote George Bernard Shaw in ”Androcles and the Lion,” “than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.” Shaw’s line captures the outsize and frankly uneasy influence that St. Paul had on the early church. Though the apostle’s letters comprise almost […]

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Review: The problematic fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce

by Emma Winters March 22, 2019

Colm Tóibín may have you reaching for your abandoned copy of “The Importance of Being Earnest” or “Dubliners,” even if you have not touched those books since high school.