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Multi
In the world of journalism, the prefix of the hour is multi: multimedia, multiplatform. A journalist friend of mine who spent a couple decades working for an Italian news agency as a reporter and then as a foreign correspondent, has just been promoted to head its new multiplatform web development team in Rome, where he’ll experiment with....
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The Gospel According to Danny
Sometimes, a first line is enough. I once picked up a novelty book of first lines, and was inordinately pleased to find the outlandish opening to Walker Percy’s Love in the Ruins: “Now in these dread latter days of the old violent beloved U.S.A. and of the Christ-forgetting Christ-haunted....
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A Non-Christian Narnia?
Laura Miller announces her nonbelief right in the subtitle of her recently published The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia. And the explicit premise of her book is that an avowed non-Christian can love The Chronicles of Narnia despite their Christian sub-text. So I must confess....
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Sacrament and Suffering at the Red Lobster
During this Christmas season, perhaps more so than in any other in recent memory, the behind-the-scenes engines that power this American orgy of consumerism are more apparent to us—and more lacking—than ever. It’s already become a hoary cliché to talk about “cutting back” and “living more simply” in this declining economy, but those platitudes....
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Defending “The Emperor’s Children”
The charge: a weak imagination, and uneven moral reasoning. The accused: Five American novelists, writing about characters living through the terrorist attacks of September 11. Cheryl Miller’s incisive essay in this month’s issue of Commentary, “9/11 and the Novelists,” is....
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