November 19, 2010

Books

Border Crossings

The Tenth Parallel Dispatches from the Fault Line between Christianity and IslamEliza GriswoldFarrar, Straus & Giroux, $27, 336 pp.

Patrick J. Ryan

“Who shall find a valiant woman?” the Book of Proverbs asked, until the modernizing translators of the NSRV updated it to “a capable wife.” Well, there have been few more valiant women these days—or perhaps ever—than the peripatetic poet and journalist Eliza Griswold. Born into an intrepid Episcopal clerical family (she dedicates this book to her mother and father, (...)


 

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