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A Reluctant Bricolage of the Sublime and the Popular: Eliyahu Fatal’s “Broken Cisterns”
Ben Ratskoff reviews Iraqi-Jewish artist Eliyahu Fatal’s 2018 exhibition in Los Angeles.
Religion
"You always admire what you really don't understand."
— Blaise Pascal
Whispers in the Bare Ruined Choir: Meghan O’Gieblyn’s Crisis of Faith
Meghan O'Gieblyn's "Interior States" is an exemple of the kind of commentary that uses religious vocabulary to describe our current moment.
The Person Formerly Known as Jemima Wilkinson
An excerpt from a new book on American messianic movements.
The Jewish Body in Pain
Sunny S. Yudkoff’s cultural lens is intriguing, but her close readings of literary works are what enliven "Tubercular Capital."
The Limits of Political Morality
"Kennedy and King" reduces morality to obvious indignity, emotion to family life, and everything else to politics. In the end, everything is politics.
A (Not So) Secular Saint
A new biography details the religious life of a liberal icon.
The Music of Jewish Life
Daniel Boyarin reviews Barry Scott Wimpfheimer's "The Talmud: A Biography," part of Princeton University Press's Lives of Great Religious Books series.
Letter to the Editor: Matthew Clemente’s Response to Kevin Hart’s “A Return to God After God”
A response to Kevin Hart's review of "Richard Kearney’s Anatheistic Wager" and "The Art of Anatheism."
A Tale of Conflict and Disagreement
David Biale studies “The Chosen Wars: How Judaism Became an American Religion” by Steven R. Weisman.
A Patient Observation of Human Beings
Fabien Truong’s book is a thoughtful, well-crafted ethnography that humanizes the faceless, amorphous “Muslim youth” of the French banlieues.
Resurrecting the Soul in a Secular Age
Mark Edmundson has written a “book about ideals — and about their potential disappearance from the world.” Can he save them?
The First Hundred Days
Charles Halton reviews two new books that challenge the first hundred days of the Trump administration in very different ways.
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