There is something very human about the Old Testament prophet Elijah whose name means “YHVH is my God.” He is elusive like ruah (wind, spirit), writes Daniel C. Matt, an [...]
Stewart Sterling’s 1955 murder mystery Alibi Baby had a striking cover of a blonde showing a lot of skin, asleep or dead in bed, and a blurb from the New [...]
If you pick up a copy of Daniel G. Brinton’s Rig Veda Americanus: Sacred Songs of the Ancient Mexicans, originally published in 1890 and now again in print from Northfield-based [...]
Chicago’s Haymarket Books promotes The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom by Felicia Rose Chavez as an “easy-to-use guide [that] explains how to recruit, nourish, and fortify [...]
Martin Luther, the world-changing religious reformer who sparked the Reformation, was also “a great hater, unrelenting in his hatred of the papacy,” writes historian Lyndal Roper in her book Living [...]
Book review: “Wild in the World” by John Donovan Published more than half a century ago, John Donovan’s Wild in the World is an exquisitely imagined, delicately rendered novel, terse [...]
Fredric Brown’s murder mystery The Fabulous Clipjoint, first published in 1947 and reissued last December by Penzler Publishers, was good enough to win an Edgar Award for Best First Novel. [...]
Thomas Cromwell, newly named Earl of Essex, is walking at three in the afternoon to the council chamber with one councilor Audley at his side, another Fitzwilliam behind him. Norfolk [...]
Holy Spirit By Patrick T. Reardon . Holy Spirit (in caps), aka Holy Ghost, aka Paraclete. . With Father and Jesus = Trinity. . In art, dove, like the one that [...]
I don’t get it. I mean, I don’t understand why anyone would divide Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels into those for adults (35) and those for young adults (6). It’s not [...]
