Arts & Letters
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Athens and Jerusalem, Again
President Clinton’s push to lift the ban on homosexuals in the military has been called many things:…
To Read and to Live
In 1956, W.H. Auden returned to an Oxford University from which he had graduated almost thirty years…
The Skimpole Syndrome: Childhood Unlimited
Let me re-introduce you to Mr. Harold Skimpole. Skimpole lives in the pages of Charles Dickens’ Bleak…
The Other Okies
Rising in the West by dan morgan knopf, 532 pages, $25 Just when you thought it was…
Fighting on Three Fronts
Jewish Polemics by arthur hertzberg columbia university press, 259 pages, $27.95 Jewish Polemics is a collection of…
The Haunted Mr. Hawthorne
Salem Is My Dwelling Place: A Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne by edward haviland miller university of iowa…
The New Liberal Racism
Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, and Unequal by andrew hacker scribner’s, 272 pages, $24.95 The…
The Banality of Sin
The Seven Deadly Sins: Jewish, Christian, and Classical Reflections on Human Nature by solomon schimmel free press,…
The Moral Fragility of Constitutionalism
America’s Constitutional Soul by harvey c. mansfield, jr. johns hopkins university press, 236 pages, $32 In this…
Why Universities Went Secular
The Secularization of the Academy edited by george m. marsden and bradley j. longfield oxford university press,…
Divorce, Communitarian Style
On Divorce by louis de bonald translated and with an introduction by nicholas davidson transaction press, 198…
Briefly Noted 205
Theology and Dialogue edited by bruce d. marshall university of notre dame press, 302 pages, $14.95 paper…
Friendship and Its Discontents
The Norton Book of Friendship edited by Eudora Welty and Ronald A. Sharr Norton, 622 pages, $25…
Scripture for the Gender-Correct
The Women’s Bible Commentary edited by carol a. newsom and sharon h. ringe westminster/john knox press, 396…
The Limits of Populism
Populism and Elitism: Politics in the Age of Equality by jeffrey bell regnery gateway, 202 pages, $21.95…
