Sagal knows what it is to run away from problems, to need to be needed, and how much can be achieved through stubborn persistence.
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Review: The beautiful message of Jean Vanier
The simple lessons of Jean Vanier on humility and Christian love always bear repeating.
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Time’s a’wastin’: two new books on procrastination
“Anyone can do any amount of work,” wrote the American humorist Robert Benchley, “provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.” Procrastination is an act of will, the choice to postpone what needs to be done. We are lying to ourselves when we procrastinate—yet everybody does it. For some, […]
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The Old Testament clarity of Andre Dubus
The stories of Andre Dubus delve into loneliness, the ferocity of parental love, adultery, retribution and sex that is a stay against loneliness.
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Review: Echoes of Graham Greene in the Andes
Lynn Monahan has done a superb job of capturing the feel of Andean Latin America—the shabby metropolis of middle-class Lima, the precariousness of a bus ride up the ragged side of a mountain, the poverty and rich culture of the rural Quechua people.
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Review: Mary Robinson channels Pope Francis and Laudato Si’ with ‘Climate Justice’
Mary Robinson argues that “to deal with climate change we must simultaneously address the underlying injustice in our world and work to eradicate poverty, exclusion, and inequality.”
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Review: Silicon Valley’s unlikely founders
Adam Fisher’s oral history of Silicon Valley chronicles the genesis and sometimes fall of every tech giant, the invention of key technologies and the development of cultural institutions around the industry.
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Books on the Bible 2018: Fresh perspectives on sacred texts
Noteworthy books on the Bible from the past year address a broad range of issues, including the relationship of religion to science and what the Bible has to say about wealth and poverty.
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Review: Babe Ruth’s mighty hits and misses
Jane Leavy chronicles Babe Ruth’s life and times, with a heavy emphasis not only on the culture Ruth played in, but the ways he radically altered that culture, with the help of his visionary agent Christy Walsh.
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Stephen Markley’s ‘Ohio’ is the novel you need to read to understand the Midwest today.
Stephen Markley’s new novel is an intimate, long look at a single night in New Canaan, a fictional “corn and rust” town set somewhere between central and northeast Ohio.