Dexter Filkins' 'The Forever War,' reviewed

John W. O'Malley's 'What Happened at Vatican II,' reviewed

Reading Catholic and Feminist has been a strange experience The book centers on the years between 1960 and 1980 a two-decade slice of American Catholicism as lived by women and a few men trying to be true to their faith and their feminism The strangeness I felt stems from my coming of age durin

Sovereignty is one of the most contested and yet indeterminate concepts in the field of political science The casual observer will know that it has something to do with ldquo unity of power rdquo ldquo legitimate right to govern rdquo and ldquo absolute control of territory rdquo but may st

Charles Simic rsquo s poetry is and always has been gnomic His poems read like little messages containing clues mdash though often at first sight clues too cryptic to be put to use It both pleases and puzzles that at just the moment when a poem seems to approach a newly discovered center of grav

The surprising similarities between George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh