‘The Assassination of a Saint’ begins like a crime thriller, complete with a criminal manhunt.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen writes about the refugees we don’t remember anymore
The author of “The Sympathizer” has a new book of short stories about Vietnamese-Americans who do not fit stereotypes.
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Kaya Oakes on Catholic Writing Today
Kaya Oakes talks about her new essay in America magazine, “Writers Blocked?” where she seeks to offer a corrective to the ongoing discussion among Paul Elie, Dana Gioia and others about the golden age of Catholic writing.
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Advice for young Muslims from a wise father
Omar Saif Ghobash, ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Russia, has written a series of essays to his two teenage sons Saif and Abdullah.
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Assessing diplomat George Mitchell’s plan for peace in the Middle East.
Books by the bushel purport to offer insights that will advance the prospects of a peaceful end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Few offer anything fresh or novel A Path To Peace does not number among those few It is difficult to understand what prompted the authors to undertake their project
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A Mass Murder of Children Everyday
Every day, an average of seven children are shot and killed the United States.
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Evelyn Waugh: addicted to alcohol and sex, haunted by God
Waugh was never reconciled to the use of vernacular in the Catholic liturgy, for which he had gained great devotion for 30 years.
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A small land with an outsized role
While it has long been a gleam in the Russian eye, it has been a thorn for Western diplomacy.
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‘Sin Bravely’ inadvertently shows the value of a good spiritual director
“Sin bravely so that you may know the forgiveness of God.”
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The Native American Holy Man who did not surrender all to the Jesuits
What Black Elk taught his people was to depend instead on something harder to take away than guns, the trust that prayers in their own language, delivered in their own way, would reach the god they addressed as Tunkashila.