Essential books

Cover Story in the May 3, 2011 issue

The Apotheosis, anonymous silver print, 1860.

Our spring books issue includes the following annotated lists of top titles in a few specific subject areas, selected by experts in the field:

In his hands, the Bible was a living, aching, burning thing.

By egregiously misreading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s moral crisis, it primes viewers for violence.

The Bible employs many merisms, in which two contrasting words stand in for a whole spectrum. “Male and female” is one of them.

Lately I’ve been feeling the same emotions I felt when I deconstructed my evangelical faith.

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