Articles in this Issue
High-Minded Murder
The death of Patrice Lumumba.
A Perplexing Guide to Movie-Watching
This primer suffers from a severe case of ADHD.
A Promise of a Future Fullness
Scott Cairns’ collected poems.
Salted with Fire
Crying from the heart.
Trollope’s Professions
How the novelist’s “Autobiography” has been misread.
“A Supremely Independent But Not Isolated Mind”
Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights,” annotated.
“Unconventional Holy Ground”
The rise of the novel and the modern self.
Indentured Women’s Forgotten Lives
A great-granddaughter assembles fragments of a lost history.
“She Gave Me a Key and I Took It”
The stories of Lucia Berlin.
Revisiting “The Secularization of the Academy”
A symposium 25 years on.
How to Be Hauerwas
It ain’t easy.
How to Write History
Bernard Bailyn’s prescriptions.
Philip the Imprudent
Micromanaging an empire.
Charles the Unwise
Why he lost his head.
“America’s Book”
Mark Noll on the Bible in public life.
Naming & Knowing
A splendid field guide to trees, best used at your desk.
A Natural History of Writing
From cuneiform to computer keystrokes.
Outing Early Christians
Scholarly clickbait.
Those Other Gospels
How believers in the first millennium read non-canonical texts.
Asking the Right Questions
Jacques Ellul’s home Bible studies—and the light they shed on his work as a whole.
Toward a Native Theology
The legacy of Richard Twiss.
Art for All of Us?
Greek tragedy and war veterans.
From Charisms to Calling
Women and the priesthood.