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Portrait of the Artist As a Young Evangelical
Portofino by Frank Schaeffer Macmillan, 256 pages, $18 Frank Schaeffer’s latest book, a novel, provides many signs that the author has at last found his genre. Living in the shadow of...
Bilbao Alone
Some of the sounds here are familiar: Vivaldi plays the same in this language, keys rattle in locks, the engines of buses sigh as they turn street corners. But something is different, an...
Complex Phenomena
The rules of chaos are simple: A mountain is never a perfect cone. A lake is never really a circle. A drop of dew is not a microcosm. No. Flowers wither. Dust collects....
The Transcendent in the Mundane
Ordinary Time by a. g. mojtabai doubleday, 223 pages, $17.95 A.G. Mojtabai’s nonfiction work, Blessed Assurance, won the 1986 Lillian Smith Award for the best book about the American...
