The decades since the Second Vatican Council and the declaration “Nostra Aetate” have seen much fruit in the form of Jewish-Christian collaboration and dialogue.
Literature
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Review: The unexpected collaboration between President Kennedy and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
In ‘The Last Brahmin,’ Luke Nichter presents Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. as a man who, from cradle to grave, loved his family and his country, the ideals of both of which he tried to live up to his entire life.
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A New Orleans jazz hall and its history in the fight for Black freedom
In post-Civil War New Orleans, Creole leaders won elections and oversaw the desegregation of public schools, a short-lived experiment destroyed after Reconstruction.
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Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘Klara and the Sun’ is a haunting tale of love, loss and…a robot.
The robotic narrator of Kazuo Ishiguro’s new novel takes us into a dystopian U.S. future.
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Review: Ecotheological river poetry and the funk-loving Jesus of the Deep South
In the poems of ‘Delta Tears,’ Philip Kolin blends ecotheology and Scripture with pleas for social justice.
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Review: Never forget the suffering and injustice of the gulag
Julius Margolin’s memoir of his time in the gulag tells his experiences through a shattering series of stories.
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Review: Platitudes are not enough. We need to see criminal justice reform in action.
Reuben Jonathan Miller’s new book cuts through the noise about criminal justice reform to lay bare what life is really like on the other side of a prison sentence.
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Ernest Hemingway was a brilliant writer and a terrible person. Discuss.
A new PBS documentary makes us ask: Is it possible to admire the art produced by a writer whom the reader dislikes, disdains, perhaps even despises?
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What’s on your bookshelf? Welcome to Spring Books 2021!
An introduction to all the books, new and old, profiled in our Spring Literary Review 2021.
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What has the Catholic Book Club been reading?
The two most recent selections by the Catholic Book Club couldn’t have been more different: A look at Thomas Jefferson’s quixotic attempt to rewrite the Bible, and Niall Williams’s richly evocative novel about a small village in the west of Ireland.