Jack Miles

Jack Miles, an ex-Jesuit, is the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning God: A Biography (1995), editor of The Norton Anthology of World Religions, and professor emeritus of English and religious studies at the University of California, Irvine.

Articles

The Lord of Auschwitz Asks to See a Priest: On James Bernauer’s “Auschwitz & Absolution”
Jack Miles reviews James Bernauer’s “Auschwitz & Absolution: The Case of the Commandant and the Confessor” in light of the new film “The Zone of Interest.”
Jack MilesMar 4, 2024
God’s Body Up Close
Francesca Stavrakopolou’s new book interprets biblical references to God’s body.
Jack MilesJan 12, 2022
- Religion
A Feast for Polymaths: Jack Miles on Gabriel Said Reynolds’s “The Qur’an and the Bible”
"The Qur’ān and the Bible" is a stunningly learned work, but its intended readers can only be those as polymathic as Gabriel Said Reynolds himself.
Jack MilesDec 17, 2018
- Religion
Inventing the Pogrom: Assigning Meaning to the Kishinev Massacre
How the word “pogrom” became one of the surprisingly few Russian words that have ever made it into English.
Jack MilesApr 9, 2018
- History
- Religion
A Roadmap to Qur’ans in English
Jack Miles, editor of "The Norton Anthology of World Religions," surveys the numerous English translations of the Qur'an.
Jack MilesOct 23, 2017
- Religion
A Coin and Its Other Side: Janet Sternburg Photographs of an Interpenetrating World
Jack Miles admires the rich simultaneity Janet Sternburg has captured in the photographs collected in “Overspilling World.”
Jack MilesDec 20, 2016
- Art & Architecture
Conversion and Its Discontents
Susan Jacoby, like many atheists, can’t stop thinking about religion.
Jack MilesMar 27, 2016
- Religion
Tilting Against Naïve Materialism: On Thomas Nagel's "Mind and Cosmos"
Jack MilesFeb 22, 2013