What does theology want from science? Above all, the heady feeling of mystery its own traditional texts no longer convey to a sophisticated, urban and multicultural public. [14.Feb.12]
By David L. Ulin
Shalom Auslander is willfully outrageous in Hope: A Tragedy; a black humorist with an Old Testament moralist’s heart. [14.Feb.12]
Percival Everett's on-target satire eviscerates everyone from Oprah to your English professor. [13.Feb.12]
There are incredible similarities between the analog and digital age. Unfortunately, this volume doesn't make stronger connections between the two, although it frequently wants to. [13.Feb.12]
It's not that historical revisionism exists in Russia, but that the revisionism––and sometimes the downright denial of the historical record––swings to extremes. [10.Feb.12]
This bespeaks a warm affection for the peripatetic poets, novelists, and philosophers who witnessed Paris’s transformation from medieval to modern metropolis under the aegis of Louis XIV, Baron Haussmann, and engineers who developed gas lighting in the mid-1800s. [10.Feb.12]
Michael Lewis explores the global economic crisis through the eyes of a financial disaster tourist -- and brings back a collection of exotic stereotypes about the people and places that he visited. [09.Feb.12]
By Carolyn Kellogg
These stories are told with thick, evocative language that speaks of viscera and flowers and poetry and violence, from times distant and more recent, ringing individual and unique. [09.Feb.12]
