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November 26, 2013
Blog: Page-Turner

America’s First Book

The Bay Psalm Book, expected to sell today for up to thirty million dollars, could become the world’s most expensive book.
November 14, 2013
Blog: Currency

Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor Funding Troubles

Starting this Sunday, if you live in L.A. or New York, your postal carrier could be knocking on your door with an Amazon package. But will such efforts save the U.S.P.S.?
November 12, 2013
Blog: Page-Turner

Inheritance and Invention: Flannery O’Connor’s Prayer Journal

O’Connor’s prayer journal will be of interest not only to those who know her work but to anyone who writes.
October 17, 2013
Blog: Page-Turner

The Devil You Know

Antonin Scalia, discussing the Devil in a recent interview, could easily have invoked Dante or Milton, but instead he named a work by C. S. Lewis.
October 15, 2013
Blog: Culture Desk

A Documentary with No Easy Answers

“After Tiller” profiles the four remaining doctors who perform late-term abortions in the U.S.
September 28, 2013
Blog: Elements

A Text Message You Shouldn’t Ignore

Hannah Anderson is one of the exceptions: a living, breathing example of a child returned to her family.
July 18, 2013
Blog: Page-Turner

A Murder in Deep Summer

“I don’t write out of anger,” Welty later said, but rage was distracting her…
June 7, 2013
Blog: Page-Turner

Songs of the Cicada

When I was a child, I loved bugs and the Bible. The two met one summer when all anyone could talk about was a plague of locusts.
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