Arts & Letters
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Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine by garry wills penguin books, 152 pages, $6.95 Augustinophobia, the fear and loathing of Augustine,…
The (Mis)Guided Dream of Graham Greene
Graham Greene was a great novelist of a special kind. Unlike many literary practitioners in this century,…
The Self in Full
An autobiography is a strange beast. While it offers unique access to the inner life of an…
Lewis Remembered
C. S. Lewis: Memories and Reflections.By John Lawlor.Spence. 132 pp. $22.95. When John Lawlor became a student…
Who is My Friend?
Friendship in the Classical World by david konstan cambridge university press, 224 pages, $38.12 Among the “first…
The Archetypes in the Machine
TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information by erik davis harmony, 368 pages, $18.19…
The Elusive Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton, American by richard brookhiser simon & schuster, 240 pages, $7 National Review senior editor Richard…
Liberating Academic Freedom
It is often said that every book is autobiographical. That certainly is true of mine. About a…
Popes for All Seasons
God’s Representatives: The Eight Twentieth-century Popes by james bentleyconstable. 200 pages, £16.95 . Saints and Sinners: A History…
C. S. Lewis on Mere Science
In The Abolition of Man C. S. Lewis noted that nothing he could say would keep some…
The Everyday C.S. Lewis
“One is sometimes (not often) glad not to be a great theologian. One might so easily confuse…
Meaningful Work
Friend of the Soul: A Benedictine Spirituality of Workby norvene vestcowley publications, 166 pages, $13.51 A lthough…
Melville in Manhattan
It should have been easy for Herman Melville to hate Manhattan—the “Babylonish brick-kilns of New York,” as…
Derrida, Death, and Forgiveness
Barth, Derrida, and the Language of Theologyby graham ward cambridge university press, 258 pages, $54.95 The Gift…
Abortion, Set to Music
Sacred Music of the 20th Century LAL-2001, Life Art, Ltd. 129 Frandview Terrace, Box 300, Lakeside, MT…
