Magazine

Dan Brown rsquo s The Da Vinci Code is a fast-paced well-plotted murder mystery that takes the reader through the Louvre a long night of murders and a police chase out of Paris to a wet morning in London There the identity of the evil ldquo Teacher rdquo who masterminded the killings is reveale

Carol Bergman rsquo s Another Day in Paradise is a slim deeply moving anthology of stories by 15 international humanitarian workers who write eloquently and candidly about their experiences in places of war and natural disaster A journalist and the child of genocide survivors Bergman is fascinat

The vagaries of Arthur Schnitzler rsquo s reputation in the English-speaking world have been curious Often praised but little read best known for filmed versions of his work from Max Ophuls rsquo s marvelous ldquo La Ronde rdquo 1950 to Stanley Kubrick rsquo s dreadful ldquo Eyes Wide Shut r

As we stand on the threshold of the feast, we begin to realize that the radiance of God can shine forth through faithfulness in the ordinary events of life.

The feast of Christmas is so rich that we need three sets of readings to throw light on its meaning Even then we only scratch the surface At midnight we are struck by the contrast between a child in a manger wrapped in swaddling clothes and the Wonder-Counselor of whom Isaiah speaks He who was th

One of publishing’s most remarkable success stories in recent times centers on an old man, a young man and life’s greatest lesson. It is the book, later an Off-Broadway play, called Tuesdays With Morrie, by Mitch Albom. The hardcover edition, published by Doubleday in 1997, nested comfor

Presidential election campaigns in the United States have become trials for the long-distance runner, increasingly extended and increasingly expensive. For some months now, the nine declared candidates for the Democratic Party presidential nomination have been appearing at various panels around the