Willoughbyland: England’s Lost Colony
BOOK BY MATTHEW PARKER THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS/ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, 2017 304 PP.; $26.99 Were North America's original thirteen British colonies the first ones relinquished by their mighty mother country? Most Americans probably smugly believe that’s... Read More
The Book That Changed America: How Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation
BOOK BY RANDALL FULLER VIKING, 2017 302 PP.; $27.00 The Book That Changed America by Randall Fuller gives a well-researched and well-written account on the effect Charles Darwin’s views had on the course of American... Read More
Village Atheists: How America’s Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation
BOOK BY LEIGH ERIC SCHMIDT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2016 360 PP.; $35.00 WHAT INITIALLY DREW ME to read Village Atheists was curiosity about life and challenges for secularists living in the United States more than... Read More
Women Beyond Belief: Discovering Life without Religion
BOOK EDITED BY KAREN L GARST PRITCHSTONE PUBLISHING, 2016 272 PP.; $16.95 IN 2014 THE ARTS and crafts chain Hobby Lobby fought to exclude certain types of birth control coverage for its female employees based... Read More
The Kingstone Bible
BOOKS EDITED BY ART A. AYRIS KINGSTONE COMICS, 2016 2,053 PP. IN THREE VOLUMES, $74.99 ONE OF MY CHILDHOOD memories of United Presbyterian Sunday school is the fun I had reading full-color comics telling Bible... Read More
Nutshell
BOOK BY IAN MCEWAN NAN A. TALESE / DOUBLEDAY 2016 197 PP.; $24.95 THE PROTAGONIST and first-person chronicler of the British writer Ian McEwan’s new novel Nutshell is quite the worldly fellow: eloquent, erudite, cultured,... Read More
His Porn, Her Pain: Confronting America’s PornPanic With Honest Talk About Sex
BY MARTY KLEIN PRAEGER, 2016 208 PP.; $24.00 I WAS ONE of those teenagers who really did read the articles in Playboy, though not before carefully exploring and sometimes masturbating with the centerfold in full... Read More