Brief thoughts on Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Feast of the Goat. (TL;DR I’m disturbed.)

Brief thoughts on Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez.

A brief commendation of Rich Mouw’s new book on common grace.

My review of Bill Flanagan’s woefully underappreciated (and now out of print) book about U2’s weirdest era.

A brief review of Kirstin Valdez Quade’s story collection.

A few words on Jhumpa Lahiri’s bilingual essay.

A few words on the new poetry collection from Christian Wiman.

David Blight's biography of Frederick Douglass is long, so I’ll keep this short.

Frederick Douglass on true patriotism.

A very short review of the novel by George Saunders.

A few words on Natasha Sistrunk Robinson’s book.

A very short review of a collection of essays about dads.

A few words on Mark Galli’s brief introduction to Karl Barth.

These are my teachers. I invite you to let them be yours.

Reading poems about joy with a broken heart.

A brief review of the religious biography of FDR by John Woolverton with James Bratt.

A brief review of The True Believer by Eric Hoffer.

Robert Hilburn loves rock ‘n’ roll.

My review of Virginia Garrard-Burnett’s account of Guatemala’s Ríos Montt years.

A thought-provoking quote from Annie Dillard’s Holy the Firm.