A history of the destruction of books, reviewed

The Portugese writer Jos eacute Saramago received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998 in part for novelistic fables that powerfully critique social institutions and human failings Now 86 years old Saramago has based his latest novel Death With Interruptions on the extraordinary premise that

A forgotten prelate gets his due

Searching for reasons for the assassination of JFK

Do ntilde a Teresa de Ahumada y Cepeda who became simply Teresa de Jes uacute s following her midlife conversion had a personality so large and intriguing that it is no surprise that a novelist has chosen this Spanish Carmelite as a character around whom to weave a fictionalized story Yet histori

To understand what St Paul was saying in his letters we also need to appreciate how and why he was saying it Paul rsquo s letters which are the earliest complete documents preserved in the New Testament were written to predominantly Gentile Christian communities in the Greco-Roman world With t