Lynch possessed a deeply incarnational spirituality and criticized religion understood as mere assent to transcendent meaning.
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Questions of creation, guilt and reconciliation render this art heist story practically perfect.
Told in alternating chapters, the lives of painter, collector and forger blend and echo in ways that none of them could imagine.
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‘White Trash’ blends literature, politics and pop culture of the past 4 centuries to tell the story of class in America.
Either way, if Trump’s candidacy is a problem, pundits on the right and left have thought of it specifically as a “white trash” problem.
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“The Secret Life of the American Musical” is as entertaining as it sounds.
Viertel tells many backstage stories about how the directors and composers managed to avoid a disaster, sometimes only a few hours ahead of opening night.
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Reno’s latest work “a riveting plea for the revival of a Christendom that has recently collapsed on American soil.” Conley reviews.
Reno’s portrait of contemporary American society is bold and grim.
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Rausch’s ‘Systematic Theology’ promises to be a useful and well-written work on a challenging subject
Sometimes a bit controversial, but always balanced, Rausch regularly gets to the heart of the matter in each topic he considers.
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A series of short stories that encounter spirituality in a refreshing, beautiful way
McFarlane says that she is “drawn to moments when people do things that are mysterious even to themselves.” The best-realized stories here are charged with these moments.
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Promoting himself as a “sexual healer,” a stranger moves in on a small Irish town in Edna O’Brien’s ‘The Little Red Chairs.’ Dennis Vellucci reviews.
A stranger arrives in the Irish village of Cloonoila, trailing a whiff of folklore with his beard, long black coat and incomprehensible mutterings.
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Pursuit of Justice
Julian Borger, a journalist for The Guardian newspaper, has written a book that displays the virtues and the limits of a reporter’s account of the world.
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Learn how Gregory the Great earned his name in George Demacopoulos’ latest work.
St. Pope Gregory the Great is treated in three sections: first as an ascetic theologian and monk, then as a pastor and selector of pastors and finally as a Roman prefect.