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 Vol. 141 Issue 008 (May 2 2014)
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••Contents••
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 Unbelief; just war; celibacy
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LETTERS Unbelief; just war; celibacy INCONVENIENT NEWS Terry Eagleton's essay on Nietzsche, "An Unbelieving Age" (March 21), made for bracing Lenten reading. I fear that my own thinking about the...
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Voting Rights & Wrongs
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From the Editors Voting Rights & Wrongs President Barack Obama recently joined former presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter at the President Lyndon Baines Johnson Library in...
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Room at the Font
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Ferrone, Rita
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COLUMNIST Rita Ferrone Room at the Font IS THE RCIA STILL WORKING? It's the night of the Easter Vigil. After the lighting of the new fire, the glow of candles in a darkened church is a vivid...
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Abe's Second Chance
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Wolf, Charles De
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SHORT TAKE Charles De Wolf Abe's Second Chance LETTER FROM JAPAN ven the heart free / Of all longing for this world / Is moved to sadness, / When in the autumn twilight V/ The snipe rises from...
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'Being Prepared for Joy'
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Domestico, Anthony
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INTERVIEW Being Prepared for Joy An interview with Christian Wiman Anthony Domestico Christian Wiman is the former editor of Poetry magazine and a current faculty member at the Yale Institute of...
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Witness
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Wiman, Christian
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Witness Typically cryptic, God said three weasels slipping electric over the rocks one current conducting them up the tree by the river in the woods in the country into which I walked away and...
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Writing a Life
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Landers, Robert K.
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ARTICLE Writing a Life What Should Literary Biography Do? Robert K. Landers Last fall, Robert Frost appeared to undergo a savage attack at the hands of acclaimed novelist Joyce Carol Oates. In a...
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The Bloody Details
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Sheehan, James J.
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BOOK ESSAY The Bloody Details Who Was to Blame for World War I? James J. Sheehan July 1914 Countdown to War Sean McMeekin Basic Books, $29.99, 480 pp. The War that Ended Peace The Road to...
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Noah
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Alleva, Richard
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FILM Richard Alleva Deluge & Delusion 'NOAH' Hot on the heels of the impersonal and saccharine Son of God comes the daringly idiosyncratic and totally depressing Noah by writer-director Darren...
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The Devil's Delusion
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Karr, Mary
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The Devil’s Delusion I lie on my back in the lawnchair to study the trees claw up toward heaven. They have all the sap I lack. It’s doubt I send rivering cloudways in great boiling torrents, as...
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Writing from Left to Right
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Steinfels, Peter
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SPRING BOOKS Peter Steinfels Goodbye to All That Writing from Left to Right My Journey from Liberal to Conservative Michael Novak Image, $24, 336 pp. Michael Novak is now eighty years old. For...
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The Dark Box
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Tentler, Leslie Woodcock
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Leslie Woodcock Tentler Forgive Him, Father The Dark Box A Secret History of Confession John Cornwell Basic Books, $27.95, 332 pp. In the late 1950s, John Cornwell— then an adolescent...
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The Twilight of the American Enlightenment
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Bacevich, Andrew J.
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Andrew J. Bacevich Out of One, Many? The Twilight of the American Enlightenment The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief George M. Marsden Basic Books, $26.99, 209 pp. Nostalgia, faint but...
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Our Mathematical Universe and The accidental Universe
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Haught, John F.
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John F. Haught Unwarranted Certainty Our Mathematical Universe My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality Max Tegmark Alfred A. Knopf, $30, 432 pp. The Accidental Universe The World You...
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A Land Without Sin
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Sayers, Valerie
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Valerie Sayers The Shape of Evil A Land Without Sin Paula Huston Slant Books, $27, 303 pp. Political and religious ideas can be difficult subjects for fiction, especially when they're combined:...
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Living Witness
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Gibson, Colleen
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THE LAST WORD Living Witness Colleen Gibson In the fall of 2009, less than six months after graduating from college, I found myself meeting with a vocation director about the possibility of a...
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