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Asterios Polyp and the fate of life lived through modernism.
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Why Karen Armstrong’s Case for God isn’t one.
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Why television’s Lost should resist the urge to tell all.
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Mitch Horowitz unleashes America’s occult past.
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John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats helps bring the Age of Irony to a close.
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The sounds of the soul stretch from 16th-century Spain to David Lynch’s LA.
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Bet you can’t guess what Pastor Timothy Keller thinks Manhattan needs more of.
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Suffering through 2012, Roland Emmerich’s take on a Mayan prophecy.
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Talking down to prophecy nuts is a delicate art.
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Lars von Trier’s Antichrist takes this reviewer through her soul’s own dark nights.
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The running father, the starving son, the fatted calf, the husks, and the unbearable question.
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Travels in China, on the trail of American Buddhism.
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Oscar Bettison’s O Death: A Requiem Masque for Six Players as out-of-body experience.
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A new book probes the modern meaning of ancient heresy.
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Keep on truckin’ in the Garden of Eden.
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Why the new Dan Brown book is a love letter to the Freemasons.
