Nostalgia
Rightly understood, nostalgia is more than a delusion about the past--it is the hope for a home we have not yet know.
The Searcher
Tana French's new mystery explores a disappearance--and, along the way, takes a look at finding our way through our shifting moral landscape.
Jack
Robinson's newest novel allows her readers neither to flinch from Jack Boughton's real fall from grace nor to condemn him to suffer what he deserves.
American Harvest
Gracy Olmstead follows Marie Mutsuki Mockett on her journey toward understanding farmers and fundamentalists.
Breaking Bread with the Dead
Alan Jacobs's new book advocates for engaging dead authors in a friendly contest, and treating them as we'd like to be treated.
Reading While Black
Esau McCaulley’s brief book introduces readers to the Black ecclesial tradition, as well as arguing ably for the biblical basis for the present pursuit of justice in our society.
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