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Beyond the Wild Wood
The Annotated Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, edited by Annie Gauger. W.W. Norton, 480 pages,…
Rocky Is My Prayer Partner
In the sixth installment of the Rocky series¯which opens today¯a fifty-something-year-old Rocky Balboa sits nervously awaiting the…
A Rhetorical Question
The Anti-Intellectual Presidency: The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush by Elvin…
Sin & Cinema
People are basically good, right? It’s a truism drilled into us by any number of self-help books,…
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A Russian Diary: A Journalist’s Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin’s Russia by Anna…
The N.Y. Times vs. the Well-Endowed College
In the past few months, there have been a string of articles¯particularly in the New York Times…
Why We Whisper: Restoring Our Right to Say It’s Wrong
On August 31, 2007, the president of Clemson University opened a letter from the South Carolina chapter…
Cooking the Books in Germany
A story in the New York Times explains that, in Germany, the government fixes the prices at…
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Grace in Practice: A Theology of Everyday Life by Paul F. M. Zahl Eerdmans, 267 pages, $18…
The Life of the World
Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel: The Ultimate Victory of the God of Life by Jon D.…
The Mad Scientists’ Club
The Mad Scientists’ Club Purple House, 217 pages, $17.95 The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists’ Club…
Evangelicals and Others
The resurgence of evangelicalism in American religious life can be gauged by various measures, one of which…
The Ugly American Goes to Sudan
Acts of Faith by Philip Caputo Knopf, 688 pages, $26.95 Philip Caputo’s Acts of Faith is a…
Development or Reversal?
A Church That Can and Cannot Change: The Development of Catholic Moral Teaching by john t. noonan,…
Guinness Backstage
Alec Guinness: The Authorized Biography by Piers Paul Read Simon & Schuster, 624 pp. $30. Apropos biography,…
