Arts & Letters
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A Teacher’s Guide to Discussing Religion in the Classroom
While I was attending a professional development workshop for nearly two-hundred teachers several weeks ago, a particularly…
Best Books (Not) of 2014
Many excellent books were published in 2014, but I did not read any of them. (My friend…
My Year in Reading
Every December since my college days a few friends and I have started an email thread to…
Atticus Finch in a Skirt
Harper Lee, now age eighty-eight and long out of the public eye, is the legendarily mysterious author…
Religiously Texan
Rough Country: How Texas Became America’s Most Powerful Bible-Belt State? by robert wuthnow? princeton, 664 pages, $39.50…
Sixty-Two
Not fit enough to wander the wild woods or separate my wouldn’ts from my shoulds, what can…
Life Without Law
Montaigne: La Vie Sans Loi ?by pierre manent? flammarion, 366 pages, 22 € Michel de Montaigne’s autobiographical…
What Critical Vision?
Rocket and Lightship: Essays on Literature and Ideas by adam kirsch norton, 320 pages, $26.95 If T.…
Stewardship of the Reader’s Eyes
The central paradox of censorship, according to the historian Paul S. Boyer, is that however sane and…
Dead Souls
The dead lie in their linen, white as chalk, Their noses, lips and eyes are sewn tight…
Blue, Red, Blue
After two clashing days—ultramarine overlaid with vermilion— it came to me late the third afternoon that…
The Five Stages of Grieving the Art of Jeff Koons
It is Sunday night, and the Whitney Museum of American Art has been open for thirty-some hours…
Protestantism in the Desert
I admit to having experienced perverse enjoyment when first hearing the story Episcopal Bishop James Pike. The…
Feeling Fancy
The Wes Anderson Collectionby matt zoller seitzabrams, 336 pages, $50 Wes Anderson is one of the most…
A Theory for Tattoos
The motives for tattoos are many, but they all have a common subtext. A tattoo can mark…
