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Lupine Lessons
The Rise of Wolf 8:Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone’s Underdogby rick mcintyregreystone books, 304 pages, $26.90 The Reign of Wolf 21: The Saga of Yellowstone’s Legendary Druid Packby rick...
The Internet Novel Comes of Age
No One Is Talking About Thisby patricia lockwood riverhead, 224 pages, $25 Chosen Spirits by samit basusimon and schuster, 280 pages, $13.92 A half-century after ARPANET created networks of computers, the “Internet...
Capitalist Horror
Six days you may labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God. You shall not do any work, either...
Specter of the Beatitudes
Workers’ Tales: Socialist Fairy Tales, Fables, and Allegories from Great Britainedited by michael rosenprinceton, 328 pages, $19.95 When I was a girl, I had a picture book, The Day the...
Confession in America
Confession: Catholics, Repentance, and Forgiveness in Americaby patrick w. careyoxford, 392 pages, $34.95 In the 2013 Joseph Gordon-Levitt romantic comedy Don Jon, the porn-obsessed title character hits the confessional,...
Be Literal
A Book of American Martyrsby joyce carol oatesecco, 752 pages, $29.99 A Book of American Martyrs, Joyce Carol Oates’s novel about the shooting of an abortionist by a Christian “Soldier...
Church Ladies
Catholic and Feminist: The Surprising History of the American Catholic Feminist Movement by mary j. henold university of north carolina press, 304 pages, $32 I have never met a...
