Housekeeping’s Contemplative Approach to Longing
Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping explores the human response to the transient. By C. E. Morgan
Category: Shelf Life
The Rise of ‘Spiritual but Not Religious’ Is a Story of Hope
Since the 2016 election, teaching Andrew Delbanco’s The Real American Dream and Catherine L. Albanese’s A Republic of Mind and Spirit has become more relevant and constructive, as this religious studies professor has come to view the rise of the spiritual but not religious as a story of hope. By Darryl Caterine
Fei Xiaotong’s Humanism Infuses “From the Soil”
An appreciation of From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society. A Translation of Fei Xiaotong’s Xiangtu Zhongguo. By Anna Sun
Narrative Wounds and Livable Fictions
Bearing witness and fixing blame in Russell Banks’s novel The Sweet Hereafter. By Matthew Potts
Imagining Greene in Islamabad
Graham Green chronicled the thin line between virtue and vice. By Chris Herlinger
Bynum’s Appetite for Full Humanity
Caroline Walker Bynum’s Holy Feast and Holy Fast. By R. Marie Griffith
A Newly Raucous Arena
Recent books on contemporary politics and religion. By Todd Shy
Climbing Jacob’s Ladder
Arthur O. Lovejoy’s The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea. By Christopher Queen
A Prophet for Then and Now
Czelaw Milosz’s Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition. By Will Joyner
The Whole Home Is Lifted
James Agee’s and Walker Evans’sLet Us Now Praise Famous Men. By Kimberley Patton
Channeling Dr. Johnson
W. Jackson Bate’s Samuel Johnson>/em>. By Peter J. Gomes
‘Mercy within Mercy within Mercy’
Pierre de Calan’s Cosmas, or the Love of God. By James Martin, SJ
Recalled to Life
Marie Cardinal’s The Words to Say It: An Autobiographical Novel. By Davíd Carrasco
Out of the Norm
JudithButler’sGender Trouble. By Amy Hollywood
Keys to the Interior Kingdom
C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia and Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials. By Stephanie Paulsell
What the Mad Knight Was Seeking
Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote. By Harvey Cox
