March 2016
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The Miracle of Esther
Esther is a book of the Bible that does not refer to God explicitly even once. On…
The Dangers of Hindu Nationalism
On January 30, 1948, the Hindu nationalist Nathuram Godse assassinated Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi with three…
Books of 2015
We suffer nowadays from a surfeit of literary anniversaries. One blurs into the next until we begin…
Letters
Catholicisms A demographic question for Ross Douthat regarding his “A Crisis of Conservative Catholicism” (January): If liberal…
Between the Hipsters and the Hasids
O n a Saturday afternoon, I survey the offerings of the Bedford Cheese Shop. This gourmet store…
The Body’s Lessons
Maybe it was during my first-ever sleepover, on a farm, that my little hostess, innocently sharing a…
Monument to Failure
The General Services Administration, together with the D.C. State Historic Preservation Office, has determined that one of…
March Madness? Just Say No
A recollection from my childhood: In the (relatively) small Midwestern town in which I grew up, many…
The Green and the Brown
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warningby timothy snydertim duggan books, 462 pages, $30 F aced…
Haven’t an Inkling
Charles Williams: The Third Inklingby grevel lindopoxford, 464 pages, $34.95 C harles Williams (1886–1945) was a cult…
Reformer’s Life
Martin Luther: Visionary Reformerby scott h. hendrixyale, 368 pages, $35 Luther on the Christian Life: Cross and…
Briefly Noted
Saint Aldhelm’s Riddlestranslated by a. m. justertoronto, 173 pages, $29.95 The riddle of Samson’s strength, the riddle…
Inescapably Natural
Natural Law in Court: A History of Legal Theory in Practiceby r. h. helmholzharvard, 288 pages, $45…
Thrown in the World
Purity: A Novel by jonathan franzen farrar, straus and giroux, 563 pages, $28 An awful lot of…
The Other Internet
The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distractionby matthew b. crawfordfarrar,…
Coates’s Lost Cause
Between the World and Me has been received with great fanfare. It won the National Book Award…
The Loving Intellect
What does it mean to be an intellectual? The word comes from the Latin word for understanding,…
21st c. Emily
I’ve never lived in Dublin,there is no desk that’s mine,but Google has an app for that—the job…
Laundry List
“The ordinary acts we practice every dayat home are of more importance to the soulthan their simplicity…
Retreat
My life is one perpetual retreat.Wall off the world for books to be adored,Testaments Old and New,…
Nanna’s Accordion
Nanna’s accordionis gathering duston a plywood floorat the top of the stairs. She got it in ’41,back…
When Toward Evening, Light….
What is death but stepping through a door, then onto summer lawns, with fathers waiting or mothers…
New City
Winter strains toward spring.A bird is singing in a leafless tree.The river gleams, the sidewalks glint with…
