Alan Jacobs’s new book is a collage of the intellectual considerations of five thinkers who, in their experience of the violence of World War II and their revulsion at the fascism that fueled it, contemplate the nature of education and its renewal after the anticipated Allied victory.
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The Gospel According to John Kerry
The story of Kerry’s faith journey is among the most evocative parts of the new memoir by the former Democratic presidential candidate and secretary of state.
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“Little Women”: What Louisa May Alcott’s classic can teach us about female empowerment
The various arguments around Little Women have long boiled down to: does the novel empower women, or does it oppress them?
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Review: Vanessa Hua’s debut novel shows how flawed our immigration system is
Vanessa Hua reminds the reader that no matter how hard you work, our immigration system can and will still fail you.
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Review: Spiritual direction for the second half of life
“No matter how long or short our lifespan,” Barbara Lee writes, “we live our spiritual life in the present.”
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Review: Birth control and the Church, 50 years later
Mark Massa invites the reader to reconsider not only the church’s teaching on artificial birth control, but also the methodologies used to arrive at that teaching.
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Idols, icons, images, illusions: Reviewing Mary Beard’s ‘How Do We Look’
Mary Beard’s new book is about the viewer as well as the viewed. It prompts us to think about how we construct our sense of civilization and the troubling ways that artistic depictions of the human and the divine serve to cement bias and, sometimes, provoke violence.
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Tara Isabella Burton’s new novel is a vivid account of how sin slowly creeps in
Review of ‘Social Creature,’ by Tara Isabella Burton
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Review: Ronan Farrow mourns diplomacy’s end
Facing the reality of a defunded and sorely understaffed State Department and with the growing presence of active and retired military personnel in policy-making processes in an increasingly complicated global community, this book raises an important question: What hope is there for the future of peace?
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Review: The Catholic contribution to Gothic literature
A bold, indispensable and revisionary text for the benefit of readers and critics of major and dominant motifs in the unfolding history of American fiction.