Nine polite, well-dressed men and women walked into the Catonsville, Maryland, draft board office May 17, 1968, tussled briefly with staff members there...
Reviews
Richard Deats 5-01-2003
Jonathan Schell, author of such highly acclaimed books as The Fate of the Earth and The Gift of Time, has now written perhaps his most important work
Rose Marie Berger 5-01-2003
On Feb. 9, 2003, Orion magazine took out a full-page advertisement on page five of The New York Times.
Helena R. Henderson 5-01-2003
It's hard to imagine a noteworthy book about the civil rights movement that doesn't include the powerful ingredients of religion and faith.
Mark L. Taylor 3-01-2003
"We believe in heaven and that Tim is with God," says a Catholic woman who lost her husband in the 9-11 attacks.
Duane Shank 3-01-2003
The genius of American jazz is using an unexpected note or chord to add an element of surprise when the music goes where you least expect.
Elizabeth Palmberg 3-01-2003
One of the many and fruitful exaggerations in Yann Martel's Life of Pi is the assertion, made by a minor character, that Pi's story will "make you believe in God."
Judy Coode 3-01-2003
It's likely that the Nazi genocide of European Jews (along with Gypsies, homosexuals, and others considered ethnically or socially deficient) is the most well-documented...
Rose Marie Berger 3-01-2003
Yesterday I got a call from a friend I hadn't spoken with in more than a year. "I have to tell someone this," she said.
The first time I played Waterdeep's new album for my housemates, they were up and dancing within seconds.
Ed Spivey Jr. 1-01-2003
Filmmaker Michael Moore loves to pick at the sores of America's self-delusions, and he's really good at it.
Nathan Wilson 1-01-2003
Thomas Patterson says that the juice has been squeezed out of elections for Americans...
Andrea Jeyaveeran 11-01-2002
I don't usually read memoirs. There are just so many of them out there, and the whole genre seems to have become self-indulgent or uninspired.
Mark Lewis Taylor 11-01-2002
Since Sept. 11, country music stations have blared songs like Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the U.S.A." and Aaron Tippin's "Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly"
Wayne A. Holst 11-01-2002
Mohandas K. Gandhi, political liberator of India and Hindu spiritual master, sought to translate Jesus' Sermon on the Mount into a practical political philosophy.
Rose Marie Berger 9-01-2002
John H. Timmerman's incisive look at poet Jane Kenyon could use a snappier title because, more than a "literary life," it is a quintessential modern American spiritual journey.