That subtle book of 428 pages retold the Old Testament ... Deeper lie myths, folk tales, legends—”pious abbreviations” of real happenings. Time wore them down to bare narratives which ...

His Pilgrim Fathers are as inept a crew of pious pioneers as ever tackled a howling ... Packed with much unorthodox detail, Author Willison’s book is one of the most readable histories of ...

Forty miles north of New York City lie the Hasidic enclaves of New Square, Kaser and Monsey. All in all, some 60,000 Hasidim live in these towns of Rockland County; some 20,000 are children. On ...

‘This book frankly leapt out of me,” writes John McWhorter, “during the summer of 2020.” The country was convulsed not just with Covid-19, but with protests in response to the killing of ...

The time is Oct. 6, 2023, and someone has come forward with a book in which two highly trained and distinguished sociologists, one an Orthodox Jew and the other an observant Muslim, explore how ...

Someone steeped in Islamic traditions may find Elizabeth Bucar’s exploration of style among Muslim women in Iran, Turkey and Indonesia to be a bit simplistic.

For nearly 50 years, Steel wrote books and essays—many of them for The New Republic—that punctured the pious pretensions of presidents, senators, secretaries of state, and sometimes ...

The Human Stain By Philip Roth Jonathan Cape: £16.99 Roth's capacity for Swiftian outrage is alive and well, writes Ronan Farren applauding a distinguished novel that looks at the nation's ...