September 2024
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Paring Down, Letting Go
"My brain is no longer a hive buzzing with new ideas for novels. My body tells me that seventy isn’t the new fifty or sixty. The immutable truth is that I’m old."
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‘Out of the Vortex’
David Jones’ 'In Parenthesis' is "the greatest work of modernist poetry you’ve never read."
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Hard Swerves
Anne Carson’s newest collection of essays and poems probes the relationship between art and suffering.
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‘It’s Worth It’
In a Mexico City migrant encampment, conditions are staggeringly poor—and gaining entry to the United States is the ultimate hope.
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Mission Territory
"We’re trying very hard to persuade people who don’t know anything about who we are, or what 'Catholic' stands for, of our values and our identity."
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To Wander or Stay Put?
"Clinging to space closes off any hope for peace, while exile exposes the Jews to the dangers of the Diaspora."
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Lifestyle Choice
Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn’s memoir is a testament to the depth of a daughter’s love—and an act of faith in our better human instincts.
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Hearing Homilies
"Homilies make illiterates of us all. We receive them aurally or we don’t receive them: from the preacher’s lips to our ears."
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It Happened Here
"When I watched the January 6 riot unfold on television, I remember being glad my kids were in school; if they had been home, I would have turned it off."
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Why Women’s Ordination Doesn’t Get Traction
There is plenty of passion in favor of women’s ordination. But it’s not in the grassroots.
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Fitting Us to His Measure
Theologian Richard Gaillardetz's final book wrestles with how to live with death approaching.
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Finding Faith in the Sahel
"As I made my way to the bus station to travel back to Matameye, I bade farewell to the deities that haunt Zinder, city of baffled desire."
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When Hitchens Was Good
Christopher Hitchens was a champion detractor, a terrific hater, and always more fun to read when he was denouncing than when he was praising.
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The Imperial Judiciary
The Supreme Court's decisions this summer reveal an aggressive agenda that will harm Americans' quality of life.
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The Despotism of Money
Two excellent new books defend the liberal project with wisdom and clarity. So why do they yield such little hope?
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The Venezuelan Elections
Things have gone from bad to worse in Venezuela after the recent presidential election.
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Cracking Down on Tech Monopolies
This month, a federal judge determined that Google is a monopolist. It's the biggest antitrust ruling in over two decades.
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Harris & Gaza
"No more standing ovations for war criminals. No more empty warnings behind closed doors. And no more weapons for the collective punishment of an entire people."
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Poem | Thirty-Third Anniversary
"By sunlight I see your face— / its pale autumnal grace, / its burden of thirty-three years."
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Two Poems by Richard Schiffman
"At that heady altitude where cobalt blue / blushes to blue-black and the earth / curves away from itself"
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Books in Brief
What we're reading: how to think of AI, a biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and an explanation of what went wrong with the trend of microfinance.
