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​By Any Other Name

Justin Coyle

Lauruseugene vodolazkinoneworld, 352 pp, $18 And the knowledge of names,” Socrates explains to Hermogenes in the Cratylus, “is a great part of knowledge.” An important concomitant of Cratylus’s naturalist...

Newman’s Bones

Justin Coyle

This coming October marks the sixth anniversary of the exhumation of Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman’s corpse. From an austere burial site in a small cemetery near Rednal, Newman’s...