2003
Plus: What to buy with those gift cards, and some of the books in my to-read stacks.
Posted 12.29.03
Plus: The Worst Book of the Year, more good reading, digital books, and a little Christmas music.
Posted 12.22.03
Read this unconventional collection of sermons and judge for yourself.
Posted 12.08.03
In City: Urbanism and Its End, a new history of New Haven, Connecticut, the city (in its late 19th-century form) is an ambiguous heaven and the suburbs that relentlessly followed are hell. Which leaves us where, exactly?
Posted 12.01.03
New novels by Michael Morris—whose first novel, A Place Called Wiregrass, was a word-of-mouth hit—and Jan Karon, who continues her beloved Mitford saga.
Posted 11.17.03
PBS creates a Doctor Zhivago for our time—and entirely omits the (unorthodox) Christianity that informs the novel from start to finish.
Posted 11.03.03
The 2003 baseball season concludes with a bang—and 2004 is just around the corner.
Posted 10.27.03
An Imperfect God examines George Washington and slavery.
Posted 10.27.03