Book Review
In the Unlikeliest of Places
This survivor’s story is less about enduring than it is about living vibrantly. Annette Libeskind Berkovits’s The Unlikeliest of Places is an incandescent biographical tribute to the author’s father, Nachman Libeskind, an eternally...
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Permanent Waves
This daring work of science fiction takes notions of eternal recurrence in fantastical new directions. Sankara Saranam’s "Permanent Waves" is an intricate cosmological adventure in which the origins and future of universal life are...
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Walking the Llano
Advanced poetics are at play in this work that is both a tribute to the land and a moving exploration of family ties. The Texas plateau known as the Staked Plain occupies thousands of square miles, and may have a memory just as vast, as...
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Gabriel's Daughters
Gabriel’s Daughters is a lovely and optimistic story about the uncrushable nature of women’s spirituality. Janet Kay Jensen’s Gabriel’s Daughters is the imaginative tale of a young girl who breaks away from the expectations of...
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Adolfo Kaminsky, A Forger's Life
Adolfo Kaminsky, A Forger’s Life is an impressive, attention-grabbing account of undermining corrupt and murderous governments. The Nazi occupation of France forced Adolfo Kaminsky, a brilliant young student fascinated by chemistry and...
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Goddess and God in the World
This is a living theological text that invites personal experiences into the exploration of divinity. From pioneering feminist theologians Carol Christ and Judith Plaskow comes a vibrant new work of embodied theology, "Goddess and God in...
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The Unlit Path Behind the House
There is holiness in the stillness and the wild, as it becomes clear in Margo Wheaton’s new collection. Her poems speak of the ways that the earth’s movements translate through human bodies. They personify winds and snows, while...
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Dragons
There are good dragons and there are bad dragons, pronounces a new mother in Melissa Dickey’s poetry collection. "Dragons" encapsulates the potency of modern womanhood, with its fearsome potentiality and its perceived limits, and...