Reviews
In our submissions guidelines we say to reviewers that our goal is not to learn about the book (or movie, dance, play, etc.) being reviewed, but for the reviewer to use the book as a pretext to teach us something about the nature of reality as understood by the reviewer and perhaps stimulated by the book. A tall order. See how we are doing:
Books
With What Will I Fill the Space You Left Behind?
by Thomas Winningham III
Where Karen Bender's A Town of Empty Rooms truly succeeds is not in the petty arguments that move the plot along, but in how we, as readers, can observe how invested these characters are in those arguments. What emerges, then, is a novel about the unsaid, the unspeakable, and the ways we talk past the dividing lines between us.
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An Alphabet
by Paul Breslin
Air, element we take inside and send back altered, Be lucid: show us the swift’s passage in twilight, the earliest stars; Calm the undervoice that yammers what is the point? Dishevel our hair, carry away our hats and umbrellas. Even …
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Three Views on Israel/Palestine: A Convenient Hatred, Our Harsh Logic, and Wrestling in the Daylight
by Tikkun Staff
By Phyllis Goldstein, Breaking the Silence, and Brant Rosen
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Red Letter Revolution
by Tikkun Staff
by Shane Claiborne and Tony Campolo
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Moses: A Stranger Among Us and From Plagues to Miracles
by Tikkun Staff
by Maurice Harris and Robert Rosenthal
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Nicaragua: Surviving the Legacy of U.S. Policy
by Tikkun Staff
Photography by Paul Dix, Edited by Pamela Fitzpatrick
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Books
The Magic of Organizing?
by David Belden
In Harry Potter, the wizarding world and the world of Muggles—the ordinary, boring, unmagical people—are at first kept separate, barely impacting one another. In Moriarty’s book, there aren’t two worlds, only one. Magic isn’t a counterculture. It is everyone’s folk culture.
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Poetry
New Poems in an Ancient Language
by David Danoff
The Israeli poet Admiel Kosman shifts his voice adroitly between ancient and modern, while never seeming quite settled in either. There is a persistent restlessness; nothing is ever straightforward or taken for granted. The poems wrestle with God, spiritual practice, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the place of a poet’s work in society, the relationship between masculinity and femininity, and the baggage of tradition borne by the Hebrew language itself.
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Poetry
A Poet’s Meditation on Force
by David Wojahn
Army Cats by Tom Sleigh Graywolf Press, 2011 In Army Cats, American poet Tom Sleigh takes on the topic of the 2007 Lebanese Civil War not as an excuse for wanton journalistic rubbernecking, but as a catalyst for a series …
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Art
Art and Science: A Marriage Made in Heaven?
by Raymond Barglow
At the turn of the past century, Vienna—even more than Berlin, Paris, or London—stood out as the European city most friendly to radical innovation of every kind. Helping us to understand this era, which introduced the modern world that we inhabit today, is Eric Kandel’s book, The Age of Insight. Neuroscience, Kandel argues, can help to close the traditional gap between scientific and nonscientific forms of inquiry.
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