Christmas Critics 2016

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November 16, 2016

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Writers & Their Blood

Meditations and how-tos from V. S. Naipaul, Richard Cohen, Benjamin Percy, and Eudora Welty (among others) on the writer's craft.

By Dominic Preziosi

November 16, 2016

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Travel by Words

Books by Nick Hornby, Ryszard Kapuscinski, and Helene Hanff explore the art of reading, the boundary between fact and fiction, and travel by literature.

By Katie Daniels

November 16, 2016

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Heroine Survival

Three excellent reads on the road less traveled, young women who stepped off the path and made their way, machete in hand, to a career based on their own passions.

By Gabrielle Steinfels

November 16, 2016

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True Drama

Hans Boersma’s "Sacramental Preaching" places us in the drama of scripture, while Daniel James Brown’s "The Boys in the Boat" is a Depression-era melodrama.

By Christopher Ruddy

November 16, 2016

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Our Mind & God

Two books that brilliantly ask: what do we mean by “God,” and how do our minds find meaning?

By Sidney Callahan

November 16, 2016

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