Gary Pomerantz’s detailed exploration of Bob Cousy’s career touches on the heroic moments and the bitter failures of the Boston Celtics, including a shameful history of racial prejudice.
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Review: Michelle Obama in her own words
Michelle Obama’s autobiography is a powerful demonstration of what a strong woman can make of a “reluctantly” public life.
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Christian belief requires transformation, not facile compromise.
Our shared faith in Christ is a precious inheritance that can by no means be taken for granted but must be re-appropriated ever anew.
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Review: The truth-telling poems of Frank Bidart
Frank Bidart tells us he came the closest to finding himself in his own poetry—and even then, not really.
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Review: Hubert H. Humphrey, a politician worth emulating
Arnold Offner’s biography shows Hubert Humphrey as a serious man who sought a serious goal: the betterment of his fellow Americans, whether through persuasion or legislation.
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Review: How we can imagine Jesus in his own culture
Jerome Neyrey’s new book displays the many ways in which Jesus was not only “like us in all things” but also definitely a person incarnated in his own culture.
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Review: Remaining faithful to fragile gifts
In ‘The Dangers of Christian Practice,’ Lauren Winner shows that even our holiest religious practices create characteristic distortions.
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There goes rhymin’ Wiman
In Christian Wiman’s new book, all easy answers about how spirituality informs the arts and vice versa are given fierce interrogation.
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Review: To hell and back
A comprehensive new book takes us all the way through Hell.
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Popes in fiction: What do they say about us?
When it comes to writing fiction about the papacy, we imagine the popes we want—most of the time.