
A Praise House of Many Mansions
In a book and documentary series, Henry Louis Gates Jr. offers a wide-ranging tour of Black religion in America.
April 29, 2021 issue
All Over Desire
Mieko Kawakami’s characters live in a world that is made up almost entirely of women but is decidedly not made for them.
April 29, 2021 issue
The Companionship of Nature
Running like a troubled thread through Helen Macdonald’s Vesper Flights is the tension between a profound human need for the solace of animals and the acknowledgment, even the insistence, that they are creatures apart.
April 29, 2021 issue
Irreconcilable Hebron
The West Bank city has become ground zero of a century-long conflict—not in spite of its sacred history, but because of it.
April 21, 2021
When Poverty Became Profane
Two recent books, by Debra Kaplan and Natan Meir, examine poverty and charity in European Jewish communities, looking at how a marginalized minority dealt with the problems of destitution and social welfare during periods of rapid change.
April 29, 2021 issue
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April 29, 2021 issue
A Praise House of Many Mansions
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When Poverty Became Profane
April 29, 2021 issue
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