Books

Books

An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland

Michael Dirda

So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading

Sara Nelson

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Azar Nafisi

Bookish lives

May 18, 2004 reviewed by Trudy Bush
Not only have book sales been rising in recent years, but those who love to read are speaking out. A subgenre of the memoir has appeared: the memoir of the reading life.

Good Morning Midnight: Life and Death in the Wild

Chip Brown

Good Morning Midnight: Life and Death in the Wild

May 04, 2004 reviewed by David Stewart
Where does a man turn, how does he live, when his hopes and dreams have failed him (or—perhaps no less commonly—when he has failed them)? Few questions challenge who we are and what we believe more profoundly, as this sober account of how one troubled soul wrestled with these questions shows.

Democracy and Tradition

Jeffrey Stout

Christian and citizen

May 04, 2004 reviewed by Robin Lovin
Reading this book is like joining an ongoing conversation, since Jeffrey Stout has been discussing religion and democracy with Stanley Hauerwas, Alasdair MacIntyre and Richard Rorty since the mid-1970s. Often when we interrupt an animated conversation, it’s best to politely excuse ourselves and move on. But this conversation is worth overhearing.

An Unexpected Journey: Reflections on Pastoral Ministry

J. Philip Wogaman

In the thick of it

May 04, 2004 reviewed by Eugene Winkler
Many seminaries and pulpits are filled these days with “second-career” clergy.

Knocking on Heaven’s Door: American Religion in the Age of Counterculture

Mark Oppenheimer

Knocking on Heaven's Door: American Religion in the Age of Counterculture

May 04, 2004 reviewed by Marcia Z. Nelson
Journalism is said to be the first draft of history. In this copiously researched book on the 1960s a former journalist offers an intriguing revision of one of those first drafts.