March 2016
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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…
Coates’s Lost Cause
Between the World and Me has been received with great fanfare. It won the National Book Award…
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…
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…
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…
