Clooney's new movie, The Ides of March, serves as a thoughtful and entertaining mirror for next year's presidential election.
Culture Watch
Larisa Friesen Hall 12-01-2011
'Does the bullet know Christian from Muslim? Does the bullet choose?'
Rosalie Riegle 12-01-2011
Dorothy Day's deep love of God and her unwavering ability to see God in those the world shuns.
Christopher Smith 11-16-2011
A Time to Plant: Life Lessons in Work, Prayer, and Dirt by Kyle T. Kramer.
Gareth Higgins 9-01-2011
The round-up on late-summer cinema, including: Solaris, The Tree of Life, and Super 8.
Gene Luen Yang 9-01-2011
Why, despite mutual suspicions, Christianity and comics go together like paper and ink.
Julie Polter 9-01-2011
Life Stories
Alison Owings interviewed members of 16 tribal nations for the oral history Indian Voices: Listening to Native Americans, capturing intimate, engaging perspectives from long-overlooked communities. An inspiring antidote to the ignorance many non-Indigenous people may unwittingly hold about contemporary Native American lives. Rutgers University Press
Danny Duncan Collum 9-01-2011
Springsteen has always understood that the rock-and-roll story is about freedom.
Lauren F. Winner 9-01-2011
The Dream is Freedom: Pauli Murray and American Democratic Faith, by Sarah Azaransky.
Danny Duncan Collum 8-01-2011
How strange sightings, the Cold War, and the national security state add up to a truth we'll never know.
Gareth Higgins 8-01-2011
The award for most surprisingly profound film of 2011 might go to Bridesmaids. This story of a woman trying to figure out her path in the midst of witness
Lauren F. Winner 7-01-2011
Lauren F. Winner reviews The Furnace of Affliction: Prison and Religion in Antebellum America, by Jennifer Graber. UNC Press.