Arts & Letters

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East of Eden

Gregory Feeley

Fallen by David Maine St. Martin’s, 256, $23.95 The Perservationist by David Maine St. Martin’s, 240 pages,…

Advent Windows

Kevin Andrew Murphy

Holy Holle, Mother Winter, Shakes her eider till it flutters, Till the ticking frees its feathers, Drifting,…

RJN: 11.29.05 In the Washington…

Richard John Neuhaus

In the Washington Post ( November 18 ), Michael Kinsley returns to the complexity of abortion politics.…

Walking the Sea

Valerie Wohlfeld

Walking the sea, I think of the small diaspora of the hermit crab, and the unshackled shell.…

Ordinary Idols

J.A. Gray

Death of an Ordinary Man: A Novel by Glen Duncan Grove. 320 pp. $13 paper. “As soon…

American Apocalypse

Daniel Johnson

An Angel Directs the Storm: Apocalyptic Religion and American Empire By Michael Northcott I.B. Tauris. 220 pp.…

Nor Certitude, Nor Peace

Paul J. Griffiths

Saturday by Ian McEwan Doubleday, 304 pp., $26. Ian McEwan’s Saturday is his eighth novel, and perhaps…

A Durable Consolation

D.S. Oderberg

Faithful Reason: Essays Catholic and Philosophical by John Haldane Routledge, 288 pp. $34.95. paper. Contemporary Western philosophy…

Kierkegaard’s Voices

Gregory R. Beabout

Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography by joakim garff translated by bruce h. kirmmse princeton university press, 867 pages,…

Finished

Gregory Wolfe

The Finishing School by Muriel Spark Doubleday. 192 pp. $16.95 Muriel Spark, Dame of the British Empire,…

Rehabilitating Truth

Paul J. Griffiths

Truth and Tolerance: Christian Belief and World Religions by joseph cardinal ratzinger ignatius. 290 pages. $15.95. May…

Covenant and Civility

Alan L. Mittleman

For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter Between Judaism and Christianity by Irving Greenberg…

Freedom’s Surety

Jean Bethke Elshtain

American Providence: A Nation with a Mission by Stephen H. Webb Continuum. 173 pp. $22.95 Perhaps Stephen…

Muffling the Clash

Lawrence A. Uzzell

The Universal Hunger for Liberty: Why the Clash of Civilizations in Not Inevitable by Michael Novak Basic.…

John Wesley: A Biography

Edward T. Oakes

John Wesley (1703-1791), the founder of Methodism, proves to be a biographer’s dream come true. The man…