Sing the Delta Iris DeMent (Flariella Records, 2012) At 51, Iris DeMent is no spring chicken, but her music can seem like a time capsule from someplace long...
Arts & Culture
Kendrick Lamar (Aftermath, 2012) A warning to our readers: This album uses explicit language standard in the hip-hop vernacular. On his major-label debut...
Christianity After Religion By Diana Butler Bass (HarperOne, 2012) Older Catholics frequently wonder where all the young people have gone and how to get them...
Flight Directed by Robert Zemeckis (Paramount, 2012) Ernest Hemingway wrote that courage was “grace under pressure,” and in Flight director Robert Zemeckis has...
Ghandi and the Unspeakable By James W. Douglass (Orbis, 2012) It’s a slight book, but a profound one: In just 126 pages, author and theologian James...
By André Vauchez (Yale Press, 2012) Francis the ecologist, Francis the stigmatic, Francis the peace activist, Francis the crusader. With so many Francis...
Mumford & Sons (Luna Park Records, 2011) Here’s the elevator pitch on Mumford & Sons: U2 meets Old Crow Medicine Show at Bruce...
Directed by Ben Affleck (Warner Brothers, 2012) Films based on true events face the dual challenge of making real life captivating on the big screen and of...
November 2012: A Private History of Happiness: Ninety-Nine Moments of Joy from Around the World By George Myerson Review: It’s no secret that happiness is...
By Joseph Stiglitz (W.W. Norton & Co., 2012) Pope Paul VI argued that excessive economic inequalities were a “danger to peace” and that political power...
