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REVIEW: Homo Legens

Sara Butler Nardo   |  August 30, 2023

Can we move beyond an instrumental approach to reading? 

REVIEW: Soulful Pages

LuElla D'Amico   |  August 28, 2023

Nurturing the spirit (and your inner weirdo) through the written word

REVIEW: The Ballot and the Bible

Greg Williams   |  August 22, 2023

Kaitlyn Schiess offers what Christians need: a better understanding of scripture and politics

REVIEW: Ancient Advice for the Twenty-First Century

Jane Greer   |  August 14, 2023

A Habsburg suggests that his family’s strengths could help us all

REVIEW: No Questions, No Lies

Julie Durbin   |  August 9, 2023

Amanda McCrina’s characters glow like embers

Material Girls

Beatrice Scudeler   |  August 8, 2023

Greta Gerwig’s Barbie just wants to be a woman

Barbie . . . and Ken

Christina Bieber Lake   |  August 7, 2023

On finding a way to teach what feminism is . . . and isn’t

REVIEW: Searching for Solidarity

Christopher Shannon   |  August 1, 2023

Weigel’s sharp vision begins to fail when he turns to the United States

REVIEW: The Education of Beth Moore

Andrea Turpin   |  July 27, 2023

Moore’s memoir sheds light on a moment. It also, quite simply, sheds light.

REVIEW: The Secret Lives of Mothers and Daughters

Sunny Rosen   |  July 25, 2023

A mid-20th century novel reaches easily across the decades

REVIEW: Progressives, Old and New

Donald T. Critchlow   |  July 18, 2023

The divide between them is wider than you might suspect

REVIEW: Bernie, Deneen, and a Left-Conservative Solution

Russell Arben Fox   |  July 13, 2023

What does our moment require? An aristocratic revolution? Or a democratic reformation?

REVIEW: The Regimes They Are A-Changin

Jon D. Schaff   |  July 12, 2023

Or are they?

REVIEW: Men and Women in Love with God

Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn   |  July 6, 2023

Renunciation is the pathway to our deepest longing, says Zena Hitz

REVIEW: One Island in Time

Jeffrey Bilbro   |  June 27, 2023

What if history really does center on the least, the last, and the lost?

The Unexpected Complications of the Abortion Debate

Daniel K. Williams   |  June 22, 2023

Review: Roe: The History of a National Obsession by Mary Ziegler. Yale University Press, 2023. 248 pp., $27.00 The first time I heard Mary Ziegler present her scholarship on abortion was more than a decade ago, before she had published […]

REVIEW: Nothing but Blue Skies?

Christina Bieber Lake   |  June 19, 2023

We need eye-opening speculative fiction more than ever

What I am reading: A new book on Thoreau the worker

Nadya Williams   |  June 16, 2023

Review: Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living by John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle. Princeton University Press, 2023. 232 pp., $27.95 For three years in the 1920s, students and faculty at the University of Mississippi who needed to […]

REVIEW: A Brave New Feminism 

Abigail Wilkinson Miller   |  June 13, 2023

Human wellbeing requires a reassessment of “progress”

REVIEW: The Making of Ex-Christian America

Daniel G. Hummel   |  June 2, 2023

Deconversion is the story of a generation. But other stories are already in the offing.

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