The Cult of Smart
Anthony Barr takes a look at the spiritual implications of a society that worships intelligence--and at his complicity in the cult of smart.
Ledger
The Ordinary and the Onslaught: The Many Facets of Ledger Megan Foster explores Jane Hirshfield's new collection of poems, from their intimate quotidian details to their insistent reminders of human…
The Lost Art of Dying
A student chaplain looks back on his summer at a cancer hospital through the lens of L.S. Dugdale's account of a culture that has lost sight of death in its mania for living well. Review by Manato Jansen
The Memory Police
Yoko Ogawa's 1994 dystopian novel explores what happens when a society gives up and gives in to loss—and what role stories have to play in keeping the resistance alive. Review by Inez Tan