Baldwin’s words explore what hatred can do not only to society at large but to the individual who bears it.
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Review: Arguing with Timothy Radcliffe
How can Christian faith be made sensible to our contemporaries?
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Review: Stranger than fiction
A spy story that sounds like a novel, but is true to life.
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Review: Understanding America’s wheat farmers
From bleeding sunsets in Texas to golden wheatfields in Oklahoma to the rolling plains of western Nebraska, Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s new book documents every stop in the wheat harvesters’ odyssey with striking lyricism and intricate detail.
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Review: How can we build a just society?
Are we right to tear down our institutions? Or do they have a role to play in a well-ordered society?
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Review: Phyllis Zagano makes the case for women deacons
While Phyllis Zagano thoughtfully draws out the theological implications of her research, her main point is historical: There is simply no precedent on which to base the exclusion of women from the diaconate in the Catholic Church.
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Review: Exploring the radical politics of Los Angeles in the 1960’s
The new book by the historians Mike Davis and Jon Wiener takes readers on a picaresque voyage around Los Angeles during the “long sixties” (1960-1973).
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Editor’s note: Welcome to Spring Books 2020
From features on contemporary writers to looks back at some of our greatest literary figures, along with poetry, biography, social criticism and more, our Spring Books 2020 issue has something for everyone (well, almost everyone).
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Review: Thomas Edison’s life of ceaseless action
He is most well known for inventing the light bulb and the phonograph, but Thomas Edison patented 1,093 “machines, systems, processes, and phenomena.” In 1881, Edmund Morris writes, Edison was “executing, on average, one new patent every four days.”
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What maps reveal about our surroundings (and ourselves)
Like language, cartography is a miracle that insists the unique slice of universe we view from the perspective of our own minds and hearts is—against all odds—expressible.