Paul Moses reviews “City of Gods: Religious Freedom, Immigration and Pluralism in Flushing, Queens” and “Irish-American Autobiography: The Divided Hearts of Athletes, Priests, Pilgrims, and More.”
Books
Posted inArts & Culture, Short Take
Confessions of an (unrepentant) book hoarder
I am an addict. I am a hoarder. I cannot give up books.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Inside the Cenacle
Thomas J. Scirghi, S.J. reviews “Meeting God in the Upper Room” by Msgr. Peter J. Vaghi.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Yitzhak Rabin: the spirit of Israel
The Israeli leader chose a path of peace and negotiation with the Palestinians.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
The problem of violence in the modern world
Killing Others provides an erudite yet accessible introduction to the origins and causes of ethnic violence.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
“Anne of Green Gables” becomes a gothic nightmare in Netflix’s “Anne With an E”
The new adaptation of “Anne of Green Gables” falls prey to the war on whimsy, the tired modern tactic of reworking the classics in order to make them “realistic.”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
A re-appreciation of Julian of Norwich’s ‘gospel of love’
‘Shewings’ is the first book ever written by a woman in the English language.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
What writing about our parents can tell us about God
To profess that Jesus was truly human is to insist that he grew as we do.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Wisdom of a ‘liberal white guy’
MSNBC host Chris Hayes likes to refer to himself as a self-righteous, loud-mouthed pundit.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Junot Díaz talks Dominican identity, immigration and the (complicated) American Dream
The American dream is at the center of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Díaz.