The Thief: On the Rediscovery of Luis de Carvajal the Younger’s Memoir
Ilan Stavans narrates the rediscovery of Luis de Carvajal the Younger’s long-lost memoir.
Ilan Stavans narrates the rediscovery of Luis de Carvajal the Younger’s long-lost memoir.
Ilan StavansJun 20, 2019
Burke Gerstenschlager considers "Learning to Speak God from Scratch" by Jonathan Merritt.
Burke GerstenschlagerJun 19, 2019
Giuliana Chamedes's "A Twentieth-Century Crusade" is a work of tremendous ambitions and impressive panoramic scope.
Udi GreenbergJun 17, 2019
David Lipset reviews two new essay collections about Jewish identity, "Freud and Monotheism" and "Jews and the Ends of Theory."
David LipsetJun 16, 2019
Diana Walsh Pasulka reviews Peter Bebergal’s "Strange Frequencies: The Extraordinary Story of the Technological Quest for the Supernatural."
Diana Walsh PasulkaJun 13, 2019
Charles Taylor marvels over "Amazing Grace."
Charles TaylorMay 22, 2019
Michael Kimmage considers "The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History" by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen.
Michael KimmageApr 29, 2019
Madysen Luebke reviews Nadia Bolz-Weber's new book, "Shameless: A Sexual Reformation," which aims to be the catalyst of a new Christian ethics.
Madysen LuebkeApr 27, 2019
A new memoir about coming to terms with aging and death.
Randy RosenthalApr 16, 2019
Ben Ratskoff reviews Iraqi-Jewish artist Eliyahu Fatal’s 2018 exhibition in Los Angeles.
Ben RatskoffApr 15, 2019
Meghan O'Gieblyn's "Interior States" is an exemple of the kind of commentary that uses religious vocabulary to describe our current moment.
Ed SimonApr 5, 2019
An excerpt from a new book on American messianic movements.
Adam MorrisMar 26, 2019
Sunny S. Yudkoff’s cultural lens is intriguing, but her close readings of literary works are what enliven "Tubercular Capital."
Arshy AziziFeb 14, 2019
"Kennedy and King" reduces morality to obvious indignity, emotion to family life, and everything else to politics. In the end, everything is politics.
Vincent LloydFeb 10, 2019
A new biography details the religious life of a liberal icon.
James K. A. SmithFeb 6, 2019
Daniel Boyarin reviews Barry Scott Wimpfheimer's "The Talmud: A Biography," part of Princeton University Press's Lives of Great Religious Books...
Daniel BoyarinFeb 1, 2019
A response to Kevin Hart's review of "Richard Kearney’s Anatheistic Wager" and "The Art of Anatheism."
Matthew Clemente, Kevin HartJan 13, 2019
David Biale studies “The Chosen Wars: How Judaism Became an American Religion” by Steven R. Weisman.
David BialeJan 7, 2019
Fabien Truong’s book is a thoughtful, well-crafted ethnography that humanizes the faceless, amorphous “Muslim youth” of the French banlieues.
Asma AfsaruddinJan 3, 2019
Mark Edmundson has written a “book about ideals — and about their potential disappearance from the world.” Can he save them?
Samuel LoncarDec 28, 2018
Charles Halton reviews two new books that challenge the first hundred days of the Trump administration in very different ways.
Charles HaltonDec 23, 2018
"The Qur’ān and the Bible" is a stunningly learned work, but its intended readers can only be those as polymathic as Gabriel Said Reynolds himself.
Jack MilesDec 17, 2018
Amir Khadem reviews John Wray’s novel “Godsend.”
Amir KhademDec 11, 2018
Ian Dreiblatt talks to Israeli author Dror Burstein about his new novel, "Muck."
Ian DreiblattDec 8, 2018