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Zone OneColson WhiteheadDoubleday, $25.95, 272 pp.
Zone One is a zombie novel. Sure, it’s a “literary” zombie novel, with better writing and more complex characterization than your typical tale of the undead. But it is still a zombie novel, through and through, and Whitehead, one of the most critically respected writers of his generation, is unashamed to embrace the genre in all its pulpy glory.
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Steven Millhauser's new book, We Others: New and Selected Stories, shows that the author is neither difficult nor obscure, but rather a deeply American writer, working in some very old-fashioned veins of New England storytelling.
What counts as authentically “Catholic,” and who gets to make that determination? That is the focus of this timely collection about the persistent problem of authority in contemporary Catholicism.
Conor Cunningham’s Darwin’s Pious Idea is a big book with big aspirations. It expects its readers to know something about philosophy, science, and theology. For those who do, it proposes a way to integrate these bodies of knowledge into a single worldview.
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