IN THE TRENCHES Things Seen and Unseen A Year Lived in Faith Nora Gallagher Alfred A. Knopf. $23, 241 pp. Peggy Rosenthal This is an inspired book. Nora Gallagher, a writer for Life, the...
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CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors Shaman? Thaumaturge? Perhaps you should advertise for an alchemist instead of a business manager. Best of luck. GERALDINE ETHEN Portland, Oreg. McConnell on...
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liturgy & lawns peggy rosenthal CRABGRASS HAS ITS PLACE Saturday had been one of those days. My husband, discouraged by the crabgrass killing our new lawn, went to the garden store for help and...
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BOOKS
Making sense is making metaphors
Daniel Berrigan was a writer long before he was a political activist. And he has continued to be a writer throughout his busy life, publishing an average of...
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Books: BETWEEN HEAVEN & EARTH AMONG recent books stimulated by the HOPE IN HARD TIMES The larger links in the chain are the nuclear arms race,...
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Books: LIVING IN THE FINAL AGE IN A DARK TINE IMAGES FOR SURVIVAL Edited by Robert Jay Lifton and Nicholas Humphrey Harvard University, $15, $5.95 paper, 150 pp. LIVING WITH...
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Correspondence Tom Powers, farewell Battle Creek, Mich. To the Editors: Thomas Powers says "Farewell" [Mar. 11]. Though we have never met face-to-face, I have enjoyed his Commonweal...
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