Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Walking the Sea
Walking the sea, I think of the small diaspora of the hermit crab, and the unshackled shell.…
American Apocalypse
An Angel Directs the Storm: Apocalyptic Religion and American Empire By Michael Northcott I.B. Tauris. 220 pp.…
Ordinary Idols
Death of an Ordinary Man: A Novel by Glen Duncan Grove. 320 pp. $13 paper. “As soon…
Nor Certitude, Nor Peace
Saturday by Ian McEwan Doubleday, 304 pp., $26. Ian McEwan’s Saturday is his eighth novel, and perhaps…
A Durable Consolation
Faithful Reason: Essays Catholic and Philosophical by John Haldane Routledge, 288 pp. $34.95. paper. Contemporary Western philosophy…
Kierkegaard’s Voices
Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography by joakim garff translated by bruce h. kirmmse princeton university press, 867 pages,…
Finished
The Finishing School by Muriel Spark Doubleday. 192 pp. $16.95 Muriel Spark, Dame of the British Empire,…
Rehabilitating Truth
Truth and Tolerance: Christian Belief and World Religions by joseph cardinal ratzinger ignatius. 290 pages. $15.95. May…
Covenant and Civility
For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter Between Judaism and Christianity by Irving Greenberg…
Freedom’s Surety
American Providence: A Nation with a Mission by Stephen H. Webb Continuum. 173 pp. $22.95 Perhaps Stephen…
Muffling the Clash
The Universal Hunger for Liberty: Why the Clash of Civilizations in Not Inevitable by Michael Novak Basic.…
John Wesley: A Biography
John Wesley (1703-1791), the founder of Methodism, proves to be a biographer’s dream come true. The man…
Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
Tony Hendra’s Father Joe was given a front page review in the New York Times Book Review…
More on Milosz
Father Jeremy Driscoll’s moving and instructive reflection on Czeslaw Milosz in this issue was written shortly before…
What’s Upstairs
Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity By Nancy Pearcey Crossway, 479 pp. $25 It is…
