November 2006
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Correspondence
Fostering Care I read with great interest Gregory Popcak’s “Misplacing Children” (June/July). As the father of four…
Barbara Pym’s Affectionate Irony
By the time I came of reading age—old enough to pass the portals of the library’s “youth…
America in the European Mind
In recent years, there’s been no shortage of commentary on European anti-Americanism and the divide between Americans…
Murder in the Vicarage
The Lighthouse by P.D. James Knopf, 352 pages, $25.95. IN HIS CELEBRATED 1948 essay on detective fiction,…
The Truth About Lies
Truth: A Guide by Simon Blackburn Oxford University Press, 272 pages, $25 SIMON BLACKBURN’S ABILITY to be…
The Book of Splendor
The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Vol. 1 translated by Daniel C. Matt Stanford University Press, 584 pages, $49.95.…
Beauty Is as Beauty Does
On Beauty by zadie smith penguin, 464 pages, $15 (paperback) In On Beauty, British writer Zadie Smith has…
Confessing Mysticism
The Mysticism of Saint Augustine: Rereading the Confessions by John Peter Kenney Routledge, 160 pages, $115. FOR…
Briefly Noted 172
Jacques and Raïssa Maritain. by Jean-Luc Barré. Notre Dame University Press, 528 pages, $50. First published ten…
Poetry
The Dead Are With Us The dead are with us when they sing. Though we can’t see…
