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 Vol. 144 Issue 012 (July 7 2017)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS Anonymous priests, voodoo economics, etc. ANONYMITY APPRECIATED In response to Robert Imbelli's remark ("Drawing Boundaries," June 2) on the anonymity of Fr. Nonomen's contributions to...
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Editorial
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It, Just Build
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From the Editors Just Build It On an evening in early June, hundreds of New York subway commuters riding the F train found themselves trapped underground for more than forty-five minutes. The air...
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'Still She Is a Wonderful Girl'
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McGowan, Jo
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COLUMNISTS Jo McGowan 'Still She Is a Wonderful Girl' HOW MY IN-LAWS LEARNED TO LIVE WITH MY CHRISTIAN FAITH Until the day she died, my mother-in-law and I had an amazing relationship. In the...
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Solidarity or Silence?
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O'Reilly, Mollie Wilson
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly Solidarity or Silence? AMERICAN MUSLIMS & RELIGIOUS LIBERTY In response to President Donald Trump's January 27 executive order curtailing Muslim immigration, several...
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The New Normal
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Bacevich, Andrew J.
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SHORT TAKES Andrew J. Bacevich The New Normal SOCIAL CHANGES THAT TRUMP HASN'T, WON'T, AND CAN'T AFFECT Asampling of recent headlines: "Art in the Age of Trump;" "Truth in the Age of Trump;"...
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What 'America First' Means Here
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Donahue, William
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William Donahue What 'America First' Means Here LETTER FROM GERMANY Last week an old friend from Stuttgart wrote to reassure me: "Don't worry. We'll stick together, no matter what our politicians...
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St. Joseph's Cemetery
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Perrault, John
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ST. JOSEPH'S CEMETERY As the limbs bend with the weight of the leaves sodden with rain I am reminded how rooted I am to the ground of my being— to the saturated moss with its little streams...
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Extremists, 'X-Men,' and an Ex-Governor
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Pinault, David
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David Pinault Extremists, 'X-Men,' and an Ex-Governor A CAUTIONARY TALE FROM JAKARTA It's not every year that you encounter an election campaign featuring blasphemy charges, contorted Quran...
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'A Kindly Presence of Mind'
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Domestico, Anthony
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INTERVIEW 'A Kindly Presence of Mind' An Interview with George Saunders Anthony Domestico When I first e-mailed George Saunders in September to see if he'd be willing to chat about his first...
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Summer Addresses
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Padhi, Bibhu
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SUMMER ADDRESSES They keep arriving, defying the summer heat, the crowding of ancient thoughts in the mind's sceptical corners, defying the mood to celebrate the presence of old relationships...
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His Bleak Materials
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Meyers, Jeffrey
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ARTICLES His Bleak Materials J. F. Powers at One Hundred Jeffrey Meyers In May 1981 I was invited to lecture at St. John's University and monastery in Collegeville, seventy-five miles northwest...
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Prophet of Harlem
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Oleynick, Griffin
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Prophet of Harlem The Conversion of Claude McKay Griffin Oleynick Early on in J. F. Powers's 1947 short story "The Trouble," a distressed African-American intellectual recites a few lines of...
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Two Poems
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Cadnum, Michael
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POETRY Two Poems by Michael Cadnum MOSQUITO The garden at night coy shadow, fishpond thick with softly gleaming algae. The human whispers, our murmured secret thrives in such balmy chiaroscuro...
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Illuminations
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McDermott, Alice
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FICTION Illuminations Alice McDermott On her first afternoon at the sanatorium upstate, Sister Illuminata left the porch where the patients were lined up like bolts of linen and wandered through...
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Obit & Jeremiah Tower
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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FILM Rand Richards Cooper The Fundamentals 'OBIT' & 'JEREMIAH TOWER' These two documentaries are a bit off the beaten path, including the path to the movie theater, so you'll have to stream them...
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The Handmaid's Tale
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Wren, Celia
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TELEVISION Celia Wren Women's Work 'THE HANDMAID'S TALE' The brutality unfolds with a precision so choreographed it's worthy of Busby Berkeley. In the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian...
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The Face of Water
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Miles, Jack
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BOOKS Jack Miles Shop Talk The Face of Water A Translator on Beauty and Meaning in the Bible Sarah Ruden Pantheon, $26.95, 232 pp. Somewhere in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude...
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The Schooldays of Jesus
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Nelson, Cassandra
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Cassandra Nelson Losing His Way The Schooldays of Jesus J. M. Coetzee Viking, $27, 260 pp. In his essay "The Storyteller" (1936), philosopher Walter Benjamin asserts that "every real story" must...
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Ill Will
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Preziosi, Dominic
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Dominic Preziosi Lie, Memory 111 Will By Dan Chaon Ballantine Books, $28, 458 pp. Would a bookish 1970s adolescence have been complete without taking on Thomas Tryon's The Other? Aside from...
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The Idiot
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Christman, Phil
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Phil Christman A Defiant Imperfection The Idiot ElifBatuman Penguin, $27, 432 pp. It's probably possible to read Elif Batuman's first novel—the story, by a Harvard-educated, language-obsessed,...
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The Other Guy
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Ryan, Jerry
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LAST WORD The Other Guy Jerry Ryan When I was a boy the third person of the Trinity was referred to as the Holy Ghost. I recall not being too keen on doing business with a ghost, however holy he...
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