Joy Harjo gives words to the poet warriors who were her ancestors
The Indigenous writer’s new memoir understands memory as counsel and ritual as the potency of love.
Books
Vincent van Gogh, Still Life With French Novels and Rose, oil on canvas, 1887.
The Bible’s imprints on US politics are noticeably masculine
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza wants us to reform our collective subconscious.
A White woman takes on the problem of nice White ladies
Sociologist Jessie Daniels reckons with the dangerous implications of the person she was raised to be.
Brian McLaren offers 10 solid reasons to abandon Christianity
And 10 reasons to stay.
Who’s doing our dirty work?
Eyal Press looks inside the daily lives of prison workers, drone warriors, and meatpackers.
Does Catholic higher ed have to sell its soul?
A truly Catholic university, says James Heft, steers a course between secularization and insularity.
Dethroning the canonical Paul
Cavan Concannon believes that the apostle’s writings belong in the latrine.
Is it possible to tell the complete history of libraries?
Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen try in their impressive but Eurocentric volume.
An ode to Daniel Berrigan
Bill Wylie-Kellerman’s patchwork of poetry, prophecy, and prose reads like a modern Gospel.
Jhumpa Lahiri’s new book crosses boundaries
It doesn’t matter what genre Translating Myself and Others is. What matters is that it is irresistibly immersive.
What do Reinhold Niebuhr's blind spots tell us about our own?
How do we cope with intractable loss?
When Frank Bruni suffered permanent vision damage, he embarked on a philosophical quest.
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