2003

John Wilson
Plus: What to buy with those gift cards, and some of the books in my to-read stacks.
Posted 12.29.03
John Wilson
Plus: The Worst Book of the Year, more good reading, digital books, and a little Christmas music.
Posted 12.22.03
Steve Thorngate
Read this unconventional collection of sermons and judge for yourself.
Posted 12.08.03
Nathan Bierma
In City: Urbanism and Its End, a new history of New Haven, Connecticut, the city (in its late 19th-century form) is an ambiguous heaven and the suburbs that relentlessly followed are hell. Which leaves us where, exactly?
Posted 12.01.03
Betty Smartt Carter
New novels by Michael Morris—whose first novel, A Place Called Wiregrass, was a word-of-mouth hit—and Jan Karon, who continues her beloved Mitford saga.
Posted 11.17.03
John Wilson
PBS creates a Doctor Zhivago for our time—and entirely omits the (unorthodox) Christianity that informs the novel from start to finish.
Posted 11.03.03
John Wilson
The 2003 baseball season concludes with a bang—and 2004 is just around the corner.
Posted 10.27.03
Preston Jones
An Imperfect God examines George Washington and slavery.
Posted 10.27.03

