After the top ten, here's the best of the rest.

There's good reason to believe that there will be staying power to the West's belated discovery of Islam.

Oh yes, and a few cloned human embryos that died.

Baseball, leisure, and worship.

Is art always subversive when it's doing its job?

"A place at the table for Christians, but at a price."

The restless intelligence of philosopher Peter van Inwagen.

Getting beyond the feel-good bromides

Nobel Prize-winner V.S. Naipaul's accounts of Islam presuppose the superiority of modern skepticism.

Misinformation and disinformation abounds. What do we know?

We thought we were invulnerable. Really?

The dream and the nightmare of megalopolis.

You want the news? Read science fiction.

The ambiguous face of the city

How media coverage of a young killer created death row chic.

"Whether telling us about the Spirit in the South or the crumbling atheism of a Chinese immigrant, these books provide windows into others' lives."