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Lucid, generous & humane
Inner Workings Literary Essays 2000-2005 J. M. Coetzee Viking, $25.95, 304 pp. Evaluating the worth of critics in 1932, Ezra Pound quite...
2/29/08 by Jeffrey Meyers · More from publication
Tortured
Gangster Priest The Italian-American Cinema of Martin Scorsese Robert Casillo University of Toronto Press, $39.95, 590 pp. In one of his...
2/29/08 by Michael O. Garvey · More from publication
Slow the presses
American Carnival Journalism under Siege in an Age of New Media Neil Henry University of California Press, $24.95, 326 pp. My copy of Neil...
2/29/08 by Jean Hughes Raber · More from publication
Religion booknotes
When as a young neophyte Augustine asked Ambrose, the bishop of Milan, what part of the Bible he should start with, Ambrose answered,...
2/29/08 by Lawrence S. Cunningham · More from publication
Bare ruined choirs
As a monk who has lived for almost forty years in a Benedictine monastery, I have had this recurring thought: Monasteries of men and women living the...
2/29/08 by Joel Rippinger · More from publication
To the bone
Created for Joy A Christian View of Suffering Sidney Callahan Crossroad, $19.95, 256 pp. Sidney Callahan begins her fifth book with these...
2/29/08 by David Loxterkamp · More from publication

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