BY PEGGY WALLACE KENNEDY BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING, DECEMBER 2019 304PP., $28.00 George Wallace, four-term governor of Alabama and three-time presidential candidate, relished hypocrisy. He relished it in himself and in his enemies. And nothing made his... Read More

BY KATHERINE STEWART BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING, 2020 352 PP.; $28.00 The mainstream media depicts the religious right as a monolithic group of evangelicals focused on cultural issues like abortion and same-sex marriage. In this telling, as... Read More

BY ALEX RYRIE BELKNAP PRESS 272 PP.; $27.95 In his book Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt, author Alec Ryrie, a professor of the history of Christianity at Durham University in England, sets out to... Read More

EDITED BY JOHN F. CALLAHAN AND MARC C. CONNER RANDOM HOUSE, 2019 1060 PP.; $50.00 Reviewing a collection of letters by a writer can be a tricky business. The style, themes, and insights that distinguish... Read More

BY RICHARD DAWKINS RANDOM HOUSE, 2019 304PP., $27.00 Richard Dawkins was raised Christian, attended Christian schools, and was confirmed in the Church of England when he was thirteen years old. Yet, by the age of... Read More

BY ANDREW MARANTZ VIKING, 2019 400PP.; $28.00 What happened when New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz investigated some of the most sinister inhabitants of the internet underworld and, alas, our real world? What didn’t happen... Read More

BY A.C. GRAYLING PENGUIN PRESS, 2019 704PP.; $35.00 If A.C. Grayling’s The History of Philo­sophy were a river, it would be shallow with a strong current. Traveling down it, you’d have little to see and... Read More