Houellebecq’s Wager – By Bruno Chaouat
Bruno Chaouat on Michel Houellebecq’s Soumission Recently, French intellectuals have become interested in the unbearable lightness of being oneself, in the paradoxical burden of individual
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Religion
Learning to Read the Victorian Church – By David Frazer Lewis
David Frazer Lewis on Michael Hall’s George Frederick Bodley and the Later Gothic Revival in Britain and America What do Victorian churches mean?
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Belief Is Not Dead: Science, Theology, and Culture in Graham Ward’s Unbelievable – By Sarah Lane
Sarah Lane on Graham Ward’s Unbelievable The topic of belief can seem an awkward guest in contemporary discussions of epistemology. Tacitly or openly
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A Broken Resurrection: Faith and the Future in Toni Morrison’s New Novel – By Andrew Lanham
Andrew Lanham on Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child Like fantastic prisms made of words, Toni Morrison’s novels each refract a singular history
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Thomas Merton and the Benefit of Recollecting Ancient Christian Worship – By Lee M. Jefferson
Lee M. Jefferson on Andrew B. McGowan’s Ancient Christian Worship: Early Church Practices in Social, Historical, and Theological Perspective A Sufi scholar once
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A Flaccid Interpretation of Eden – By Joseph Ryan Kelly
Joseph Ryan Kelly on Ziony Zevit’s What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden? The baculum, or os penis, is a bone in
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Philosophy in Dialogue – By Matthew A. Benton
Matthew A. Benton on Timothy Williamson’s Tetralogue: I’m Right, You’re Wrong Living in society means learning from, and disagreeing with, others. Much of what
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Midcentury British Catholic Church Architecture: Form, Function, and Context – By Victoria M. Young
Victoria M. Young on Robert Proctor’s Building the Modern Church In the decades after World War II, communities worldwide returned to worship as
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Recovering the World’s Oldest Language – By Nicole Brisch
Nicole Brisch on Paul Delnero’s The Textual Criticism of Sumerian Literature Ancient Mesopotamia, the area that today corresponds to the modern states of
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Tuvia Ruebner’s Poetry and Why Translation Matters – By Dara Barnat
Dara Barnat on Rachel Tzvia Back’s In the Illuminated Dark Being a victim, again and again a victim — what a job! Here and
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