The afterlife. For as long as we have been around, we have fashioned stories about how you get there, who lives there and what happens when you arrive.

In the wind I lose the tumble of bone-white rocks down the hillside in summer

Learning to see Girard as an “unlikely apologist” for the Christian story does not undermine orthodox faith—it is an extremely viable path forward.

With a sense of itself as the future of humanity, Facebook proves to be no ordinary company. When you’ve got a billion users, Martínez points out, it doesn’t matter if your advertising model is enormously flawed.

As one reviewer observed, “She began by writing about sidewalks and finished with an account of Western civilization itself.”