Arts & Letters
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On the Death of Literature
The Death Of Literature by Alvin Kernan Yale University Press, 240 pages, $22.50 Those who began to…
Briefly Noted 204
Judas Iscariot and the Myth of Jewish Evil by Hyam Maccoby Free Press, 213 pages, $22.95 Maccoby…
Baby Talk
Life Itself: Abortion in the American Mind by Roger Rosenblatt Random House, 194 pages, $20 Roger Rosenblatt…
Mystery and Desire
Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen HarperCollins, 179 pages, $20 Ron Hanen’s Mariette in Ecstasy is a…
The Protestant Ethos
Protestants:The Birth of a Revolution by Steven Ozment Doubleday, 270 pages, $20 I am a Catholic, but I married…
Hauerwas Examined
After Christendom? by Stanley Hauerwas Abingdon Press, 192 pages, $12.95 Stanley Hauerwas once told me that After…
Don’t Bet Democratic
Minority Party: Why the Democrats Face Defeat in 1992 and Beyond by Peter Brown Regnery Gateway, 350…
The Feminist as Paranoid
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi Crown, 549 pages, $24 Look out: here…
Back to Our Future
Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century…
New Age Mush
Belonging To The Universe: Explorations on the Frontiers of Science and Spirituality by fritjof capra and david…
The Blackboard Bungle
Ed School Follies: The Miseducation Of America’s Teachers by rita kramer free press, 228 pages, $22.95 In…
Character and Poverty
Poverty And Compassion: The Moral Imagination Of The Late Victorians by gertrude himmelfarb knopf, 475 pages, $30…
Church-State Conundrums
Original Intent: Chief Justice Rehnquist and the Course of American Church/State Relations by derek davis prometheus books,…
The 1960s Revisited
The Death Of An American Jewish Community: A Tragedy Of Good Intentions by hillel levine and lawrence…
Academic Religion: Playground of the Vandals
“When you say ‘hill,’” the Queen interrupted, “I could show you hills, in comparison with which you’d…
