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Berne, Suzanne
South Florida, tells a freakish coming-of- (Riverhead Books, $12.95, 349 pp.), is a Renaissance classic, Black No More (North- age story garnished with a feral sym- moody and...
...I was astonished reflect the values and mission of Father Louis G. Miller, long-time editor of by this book, particularly by the unexpected insight Cunningham offers into Liguorian magazine, for whom the award is named...
...These include: a comwhat consoles us in our daily human mitment to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ...
...concern with social justice...
...Jenkins argues convincingly that cults C.LICLS' A"VI> NL'Lrr IrELIGrC)Iyy .' unlovely provincial villages and are pin- IN q y...
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...i compliant that to hate him would be like But it is the middle third, the covert war, that hating one of your own fantasies...
...In simple, but profound language it breaks open for us the paradox and shows the way to a for pronouncements on the human connew style of leadership we have been searching for...
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...No wonder I hoard my books...
...Well, if you want something really good," I say, then pull my favorites "With wit and humane sensitivity...
...is a Renaissance classic, Black No More (Northage story garnished with a feral sym- moody and devious novel, which only eastern, $13.95, 222 pp...
...Still, we cherBo...
...uI.cToI , ing for scenes of vitality that they them- and new religions are significant social selves embody...
...This whole book both inspires and reluctant to lend when a visitor wanders chastises...
...The Herald (Glasgow) triumph of this particular novel is that it "The role of British Intelligence in Ulster has never loses a strangely tender comic never been so deeply explored...
...The Brethren were experienced in joy," cowley@cowley.or, • www.cowley.org Fitzgerald writes dryly, "and perhaps sometimes forgot what a difficult emotion it is, and how unfamiliar to many...
...Both writers focus on the portrait of recent American unexpected, piercing moments of revelation that strike people who think they religious history...
...Library modest size suggests...
...Now ACCEPTING MANUSCRIPTS...
...David Bromley verse patterns that have been guiding them...
...MARY ANN GLENDON 1999 Orange Prize for fiction...
...Bring it to a limely goofy novel is Charles Finney's thing Korean-American who is by pro- sparsely populated beach...
...Although I'm partial to and cultural contributors to the healthy them all, my favorite of Munro's collec- development of society...
...co-director of Vision Time, an organization What makes this strange, ironic novel committed to Servant Leadership so compelling is Fitzgerald's genius for "My brother, Bennett, has given us a gem of a book...
...Kirkus Reviews Trevor's characters, too, frequently find themselves in rural outposts, beset by family obligations, stymied, yearning for "An innovative, engaging a wider life...
...After all, it's The Circus of Dr...
...MI 49503 phy and trainee clerk in the Directorate of Salt Mines, who is destined to beCommonweal 20 June 16, 2000 come the poet Novalis...
...which lyrically Liguori Publications is now accepting manuscripts for the 2001 Louis G. Miller links the lives of Virginia Woolf and Award...
...Thought-provoking...
...Quite an achievement.' - GEORGE KATEB into my study requesting a book for summer vacation...
...This "Geraghty has produced a book both readable and alarming...
...being seen reading books whose text lies mostly left of center...
...Worried about ho are we...
...generally succeed in persuading my vis-RICHARD J. BERNSTEIN itor not to borrow a book from me after all...
...0047 AVM...
...It's so modest, and so confaithfulness to Church teaching...
...Chance in Hell...
...veres, and these days the book that gets - MICHAEL PERRY carried away is likely to be Penelope Fitzgerald's The Blue Flower (Houghton ISBN 0-8028-3888-X ' 1:95...
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...The astonishes...
...He writes sympathy toward its characters no matclearly and knowledgeably about the impact ter how dark and limited their worlds on the IRA of the use of forensics by British come to seem...
...The girl is not very bright (she "A marvelous book...
...about the opposite of tanning...
...Surprising relationships occur again DEADLINE...
...2 New Times So many of those hours come while reading, don't they...
...It's the Commonweal 2 1 June 16, 2000 story of three people with dramatically different lives who are nevertheless inThe Irish War tricately connected...
...Brilliant, voluble, kindhearted Fritz is beloved by his enormous, eccentric family and his cir- Servanthood Servanthood cle of intellectual friends (which in- Leadership for the Third Millennium ., L, 're 1.1,d M,Rr.,i,.„ cludes Schlegel and Goethe...
...a certain evangelical impulse get the bet-JOHN WITTE JR...
...we hope, more Lic.;voRI MO 63057-9999 Clouds: Mission Spirituality for than anything, for more...
...Various friends have tried to borrow Available of better hookstares...
...Lao (Buccaneer, $18.95...
...Set in the MidJournal west in the 1920s, the novel follows a boy whose mother has died in the 1918 $29.95 hardcover flu epidemic, as he navigates his grief THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS • 1-800-537-5487 • www.press.jhu.edu and loneliness and his father's remarriage alongside the unfolding of a tragic small-town scandal, which involves the family of a boy he knows slightly...
...ter of me...
...and William Trevor share a similar blend of microscopically precise detail and cosmic insights into the human heart...
...Set in eighteenth-century Saxony, this At your hookstorc...
...vincing, simply "an hour here or there and accessibility to a popular readership...
...K AWARD COMMI rI F.F Anthony J. Gittins, Reading the Dot: Llf,uoRl DkwVF ish the city, the morning...
...when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give Send your original, completed Rick Mathis, Prayer-Centered us everything we've ever imagined, manuscript to: Healing: Finding the God though everyone but children (and perWho Heals haps even they) know these hours will (forthcoming, September 2000) inevitably be followed by others, far PUPI [cATIONS darker and more difficult...
...Sister Nancy E. Westmeyer, OSF, and plans to marry her...
...But usually altruism and "No one who reads this book can come away unmoved or uninspired...
...This sardonic phony orchestra, errant Rastas, and a appears to be a political thriller...
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...On the subject of appearances, you need pack nothing more than Chang-Rae Lee's debut, Native Speaker there's also George Schuyler's Harlem Robert Fitzgerald's translation of The Odyssey (Farrar Strauss & Giroux, $10, 528 pp...
...Faith-filled cultural criticism of a high order...
...For total immersion (so to speak) as the Chinese impresario...
...A clue to how much fun this is: there's The result fully deserves the occasional But really, what goes in the straw basa film version, by effects-meister George reviewer's comparisons to Ellison's In- ket with the sunscreen and the big towPal, with Tony Randall hamming it up visible Man (Random House, $19.95, 616 els...
...struggles...
...Submissions should be 30,000 to 60,000 words in length, and should two modern women...
...But now and then someone perse"A compelling set of reflections, both disturbing and prophetic...
...We all know detail-every page offers marvelously patriarchy does not work any longer...
...and Derek Walcott's salty Caribbean epic Omeros (Farrar Straus & Giroux, $12, 325 pp...
...These are "At times Jean Bethke Elshtain reaches heights rarely attained in the books I hoard, that I'm contemporary moral philosophy...
...OCTOBER 31, 2000 in Michael Cunningham's The Hours (Picador, $13, 230 pp...
...The last third is cials on television-is so ephemeral and devoted to militarism in Ireland up to 1921...
...Suzanne Berne's novel, A Crime in the "Vintage Elshtain - social criticism at its best, politically astute and Neighborhood (Algonquin Books), won the theologically informed...
...Commonweal 2 2 June 16, 2000...
...Grounded in gospel values, can't spell Fritz's last name, for in- written in clear and profoundly challenging stance), nor very pretty, and yet Fritz words, Servanthood uncovers the meaning of loves her to distraction, calls her his Servant Leadership for the Church and the "spirit guide" and his "philosophy," world...
...fession a sort of metaphysical hit man...
...Another sub- comes to us narrated by a twenty-some- never admit you've read it...
...FIRST THINGS read three or four times, and plan to read again...
...Munro writes of the rergious fringe in American about women, many of whom live in life...
...Short-story collections by Alice Munro Cults-the cutting edge of American religion...
...Mifflin, $12, 225 pp...
...tions is her first, The Lives of Girls and Y Women (NAL-Dutton, $11.95, 244 pp...
...emphasis on practical, pastoral spirituality...
...All of Bennett J. Sims them are stunned when he falls deeply 1-56101-145-2 • 183 pp • paper in love with a twelve-year-old named Sophie...
...1 GRAND RAPIDS...
...pages . har&bver...
...Servanthood gives us a new precise information about eighteenth-century German life-and also her genius paradigm, Servant Leadership...
...The first third is a well- man's identity-he is an actor who ocobserved account of a largely visible British war machine coping with the horrors of the casionally appears in tobacco commerNorthern Ireland Troubles...
...Beautifully written here are a few books I've and warmly recommended...
...He describes in detail the IRA's Another favorite, William Maxwell's success in modifying and developing its fictionalized memoir, So Long, See You own weapons, particularly mortars, and Tomorrow (Random House, $10, 160 writes of the SAS's often lethal operations in pp...
...Elshtain demonstrates her living from the bookshelves and begin describChristian faith by showing how it is relevant to the moral dilemmas ing them with such enthusiasm that I that we all confront every day...
...is one of those slender novels that Ulster with a kind of righteous anger not grow large and luminous, occupying seen since American journalists inveighed far more imaginative territory than its against our role in Vietnam...
...Intelligence...
...dition, which are never anything less than startling yet always seem true...
...an Asian district of New York City, but it white is so wonderfully wicked you can No way...
...Jean Bethke Elshtain, one of America's leading public intellectuals, finds amid the tensions and tragedies of our turn-of-the-century sod- Suzanne Berne ety pointers for recovering the life-affirming essence of what It means to be human...
...von Hardenberg, a student of philosoE-mail: salcsCaeerdmans.cont 255 JEFFERSON AVE...
...A fascinating look at the importance Munro's characters mostly live in Canada, Trevor's in Ireland...
...Demonstrates that religious 'have been living ordinary lives, until movements have always been a primary source of religious vitality and of suddenly they realize the hidden, per- what ultimately becomes mainstream tradition...
...or call #00-253-752...
...There is, tale about the social impact of a scientifcatch phrase that deserves a place in yes, a story about a political campaign in ic breakthrough that turns black people everyone's vocabulary: "Never happen...
...Two of the characThe Hidden Conflict between the IRA and British Intelligence ters are betrayed and abandoned by the Tony Geraghty third, and yet he does not inspire hatred, neither in them nor the reader...
...Well, there are Jean Bethke Elshtain those who say that the only essential reading, every summer of your life, is Critical Reflections and Hopeful Possibilities Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (Harcourt Brace, $11, 209 pp...
...For in- -Albert H. Ottenweller, Retired Bishop of Steubenville stance, on Christmas Day, Fritz's gloomy, pious old father is instructed by the di- Cowley Publications rector of a Moravian religious order to re- 28 Temple PI...
Vol. 127 • June 2000 • No. 12
