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 Vol. 138 Issue 009 (May 6 2011)
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••Contents••
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 Letters: Marx, Scandal, Libya
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LETTERS Marx, scandal, Libya supporting the middle Regarding Terry Eagleton's "Was Marx Right?" (April 8): I had thought that what had been making Marx wrong for many decades, at least in the...
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Wrong Path
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From the Editors Wrong Path As the United States gradually emerges from its worst recession since the 1930s, Washington has again turned its attention to the nation's debt. Both parties agree it's...
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Telling the Christian Story
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Garvey, John
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COLUMNIST John Qarvey Telling the Christian Story MAKE IT HUMBLE & MAKE IT PERSUASIVE The idea that the universe is ultimately without meaning—an idea advanced by many of the new atheists—has...
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Engerland
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Bergonzi, Bernard
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SHORT TAKES Bernard Bergonzi Engerland IDENTITY POLITICS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM The phrase "national identity" is popping up everywhere in Britain. I have read two recent books with those words...
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Risky Business
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Peppard, Michael
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Michael Peppard Risky Business WHY SO FEW CONSERVATIVES BECOME PROFESSORS Irecently returned from four days of imprisonment. I was trapped in a catacomb of exhibition halls, hotel suites, seminar...
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Hopkins Agonistes
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Boudway, Matthew
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ARTICLE Hopkins Agonistes The Poet's Quarrel with Himself & God Matthew Boudway Toward the end of his life, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) suffered several long bouts of depression. His "dark...
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Psalm 68
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Alan Sullivan devoted the last year of his struggle with cancer to translating the seventy-eight poems attributed to King David, as a thanks offering to the psalmist for bringing him to God at the...
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Outside Gravity
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Haigh, Jennifer
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Outside Qravity Jennifer Haigh The story begins on a bright afternoon many years ago, one I remember as though I'd seen it. (This is natural enough in a family like ours, with its canon of...
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View Finders
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Fredericks, James L.
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ART James L. Fredericks View Finders THE GETTY'S 'IN SEARCH OF BIBLICAL LANDS' Aphotograph often tells more about who was behind the camera than what lies in front of it. From its invention in...
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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McGreevy, John T.
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SPRING BOOKS John T. McQreevy What We've Lost Daniel Patrick Moynihan A Portrait in Letters of An American Visionary Edited by Steven R. Weisman PublicAffairs, $35, 608 pp. Age of...
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The Troubled Man
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Wilson, John
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John Wilson Murder, He Wrote The Troubled Man Henning Mankell Translated by Laurie Thompson Alfred A. Knopf, $26.95, 384 pp. In 1991, in Sweden, Henning Man-kell published a novel about a...
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Heaven's Bride
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Schmalz, Mathew N.
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Mathew N. Schmalz In the Flesh Heaven's Bride The Unprintable Life of Ida C. Craddock, American Mystic, Scholar, Sexologist, Martyr, and Madwoman Leigh Eric Schmidt Basic Books, $28.95, 335...
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A Bittersweet Season
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Callahan, Sidney
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Sidney Callahan Trading Places A Bittersweet Season Caring for Our Aging Parents—and Ourselves Jane Gross Alfred A. Knopf, $26.95, 368 pp. Jane Gross's book on caring for aging parents is both...
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Man with a Blue Scarf
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Meyers, Jeffrey
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Jeffrey Meyers Finishing Well Man with a Blue Scarf On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud Martin Gayford Thames & Hudson, $40, 248 pp. Lucian Freud—along with Andrew Wyeth, Alex Colville,...
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Townie
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Imbelli, Robert P.
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Robert P. Imbelli The Fighter Townie A Memoir Andre Dibits III Norton, $25.95, 387 pp. One of the most moving collections of essays I know is Broken Vessels by Andre Dubus II. Almost twenty...
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How the End Begins
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Stevenson, Jonathan
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Jonathan Stevenson Self-destruct Sequence How the End Begins The Road to a Nuclear World War III Ron Rosenbaum Simon & Schuster, $28, 303 pp. According to Ron Rosenbaum, when the Cold War...
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On the House
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Baumann, Nick
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THE LAST WORD On the House Nick Baumann Journalists have a long and essentially uncomplicated relationship with alcohol. "Between 1899 and 1904 there was only one reporter south of the...
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Vol. 138 Issue 010 (May 20 2011)
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