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REVIEW: U Sad, Bro? 

Elizabeth Stice   |  May 16, 2024

Frat life takes a lucrative—and criminal—turn

REVIEW: Kids Are People Too

Agnes Howard   |  May 10, 2024

The reasons for having children are self-explanatory. Why are we rejecting them?

REVIEW: A Vindication of Mary Wollstonecraft

Beatrice Scudeler   |  May 9, 2024

Wollstonecraft’s relationship to Christian faith defies partisan classification

FILM FORUM: Civil War, III

Jeffrey Overstreet   |  May 3, 2024

In Civil War, camera-wielding Truth-Tellers face trials by fire

FILM FORUM: Civil War, II

David Head   |  May 2, 2024

Alex Garland gives us war without politics—or meaning

FILM FORUM: Civil War, I

John H. Haas   |  May 1, 2024

Alex Garland’s film makes the (first) Civil War seem suddenly—and fittingly—near

REVIEW: A Life in Books

Lucy S R Austen   |  April 29, 2024

A memoir of reading, a memoir of joy

REVIEW: Fragile Objects

LuElla D'Amico   |  April 24, 2024

Katy Carl’s stories revive and renew the spiritual vision of Flannery O’ Connor

REVIEW: The Exvangelicals

Nadya Williams   |  April 23, 2024

There’s more than one way to deconstruct

REVIEW: The Believer

Jim Cullen   |  April 18, 2024

Guelzo’s Lincoln clarifies the moral foundations of democratic patriotism in a corrosive age

REVIEW: The Last Best Hope

Jon D. Schaff   |  April 17, 2024

Allen Guelzo turns to Lincoln to issue a message to America 

INTERVIEW: Shirley Mullen on the Courageous Middle

Nadya Williams   |  April 16, 2024

Wanted: those with the skill and desire to host difficult conversations

Nancy French, Ghosted—a conservative, interrupted

Nadya Williams   |  April 11, 2024

Nancy French’s memoir is a story of God showing love to the weak and redeeming creation while also calling fallible people to restore justice already here on earth.

REVIEW: Permanence, Memoir, and Memory

Dixie Dillon Lane   |  April 9, 2024

On acknowledging pain without sacrificing hope

REVIEW: Pity for Evil 

Siobhan Heekin-Canedy   |  April 5, 2024

The story of abortion and nineteenth-century feminism gets its due

REVIEW: Seeking Answers

Carla Galdo   |  April 4, 2024

Freedom, eternity, and the question of God

REVIEW: In Thought, Word, and Seed

Melanie Springer Mock   |  April 3, 2024

Amid fracture and pain, Tiffany Eberle Kriner finds hope on a farm

REVIEW: Definitive Lives

Timothy Larsen   |  April 2, 2024

A story at the intersection of the OED and our quest for meaning

REVIEW: The Art of the Possible

Christina Bieber Lake   |  April 1, 2024

In Tara Isabella Burton’s new novel, fancy, fantasy, and possibility all point in one direction: home

REVIEW: Light and Hope

William Tate   |  March 29, 2024

In Jane Greer, John Donne and Gerard Manley Hopkins find a worthy companion

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