This is not a history we Americans like to ponder.

'We Are All Children of God,' by Zacharie Bukuru

'Mercy in the City,' by Kerry Weber, and 'The Many Sides of Peace,' by Brayton Shanley

Edna O rsquo Brien had a dream In it she is a very young girl on her way to school when she trips and falls on the road gashing her forehead open Out spills her brain which becomes a spinning top that passers-by young and old dance and trample upon Reality for O rsquo Brien has proved far les

What more can be said about the nine American Catholics who on a May afternoon 44 years ago stormed a Selective Service office in Catonsville Md seized draft files and burned them in a parking lot while praying the Our Father Their exploits have been memorialized in songs poetry literature fi

A review of Matt Beynon Rees's "The Samaritan's Secret"

Even in the best of times American popular understanding of Muslims has been informed more by stereotype and suspicion than reality But since the terrorist attacks on Sept 11 2001 many perceive the divide between ldquo us rdquo and ldquo them rdquo as a chasm too wide to cross Anti-America

The French writer Guy Sorman has taught economics served in public office traveled widely and authored numerous books on contemporary affairs But he is first and foremost a devout democrat His firm belief in the universality of democracy shines through in The Empire of Lies a book that challeng

A Palestinian mystery, reviewed

A Middle Eastern murder mystery, reviewed