“God does not and cannot exist, ” Iris Murdoch once wrote, “but what led us to conceive of him does exist, and is constantly experienced and pictured. ” You could hang that sentence—epigraph, baleful ...
10.19.2026 Newyorker.com
I f you were looking for someone to give direction to Ireland at this juncture in our history, you probably wouldn’t think of a 78-year-old priest from Prague . But then Tomáš Halík is not an ordinary...
10.19.2026 Irishtimes.com
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. —Henry David Thoreau Friday Memories of Books That Shook My World When I was a young child, I would spend hours playing with ...
10.16.2026 Betterlivingthroughbeowulf.com
Roslyn Dubler is a post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Legal History and Legal Theory. Her research focuses on comparative social policy, family politics, and the history of feminist t...
10.14.2026 Jhiblog.org
Featured at Writers Read: Elizabeth Noel , author of Beneath the Edelweiss . Her entry begins: I am reading Gravity and Grace published posthumously by Simone Weil which I find both challenging and illuminating. I discovered the French philosopher, social activist and mystic while researching Beneath the Edelweiss and I could not look away from her. I can relate to Weil’s discomfort with religious institutions and the pull she felt toward a Christian spirituality. Weil would be horrified by an a...
10.15.2026 Americareads.blogspot.com
Our quintet of quality reviews this week includes Joanna Scutts on Shawn Gude’s American Socialist, Dwight Garner on Barbara Trapido’s Brother of the More Famous Jack, Rhian Sasseen on Meghan O’Giebly...
10.15.2026 Lithub.com
Kashmir Reader Kashmir Reader Kashmir Reader Kashmir Reader Iconoclasm: The Disciplined Courage To Question Inherited Certainty 12: 43 am October 19, 2026 0 0 guest Those who dared to question the giv...
10.18.2026 Kashmirreader.com