Book Review from Issue 99
Piercing the Fog of God
Night at the Fiestas: Stories by Kirstin Valdez Quade
The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead: Stories by Chanelle Benz
The Whole Beautiful World: Stories by Melissa Kuipers
Reviewed by Samuel Martin
Book Reviews from the Archive
How to Survive the Apocalypse
The Pinch by Steve Stern
This Is Why I Came by Mary Rakow
When the English Fall by David Williams
Review by Jen Hinst-White
The Disasters We Were Born Into
Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of My Grandmother, Kate Hennessy
My Utmost: A Devotional Memoir, Macy Halford
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, Valeria Luiselli
Reviewed by D. L. Mayfield
The Everlasting Song
Simple Gifts: Great Hymns: One Man’s Search for Grace by Bill Henderson
Review by Beth Bevis
Twenty-First Century Lines
Wild Is the Wind, Carl Phillips (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018)
The Book of Endings, Leslie Harrison (University of Akron Press, 2017)
In the Language of My Captor, Shane McCrae (Wesleyan University Press, 2017)
Review by Jason Gray
Visioning the Invisible
Recent Artists’ Biographies
Cézanne: A Life by Alex Danchev
Caspar David Friedrich by Johannes Grave
Leonardo and the Last Supper by Ross King
Review by Katie Kresser
Writing in Invisible Ink
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams
When I Was a Child I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson
The Man within My Head by Pico Iyer
My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir by Meir Shalev
Review by Lauren F. Winner
Atheist Bodies
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Spiegel & Grau, 2015)
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson (Graywolf Press, 2015)
A Body, Undone: Living on after Great Pain by Christina Crosby (New York University Press, 2016)
Review by Camellia Freeman
Darwin and the Problem of Time
Darwin’s Century: Evolution and the Men Who Discovered It by Loren Eiseley
Science and Faith: A New Introduction by John F. Haught
Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love by Elizabeth A. Johnson
Living with Darwin: Evolution, Design, and the Future of Faith by Philip Kitcher
Review by Morgan Meis
The Nightmare God: Art and Sublime Terror
Seiobo There Below by László Krasznahorkai, translated from Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet (New Directions, 2013)
Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue, translated from Spanish by Natasha Wimmer (Riverhead Books, 2016)
A Story of America Goes Walking by Saara Myrene Raappana and Rebekah Wilkins-Pepiton (Shechem Press, 2016)
Peter Hujar: Lost Downtown by Vince Aletti and Stephen Koch (Steidl/Pace MacGill, 2016)
Review by Natalie Vestin
How Else Would God Enter?
The Corpse Flower: New & Selected Poems by Bruce Beasley
Mary’s House: New & Selected Poems by David Craig
Some Heaven by Todd Davis
Apropos of Nothing by Richard Jones
Review by Peggy Rosenthal
Which I is I?
Idiot Psalms by Scott Cairns
Seam by Tarfia Faizullah
F by Franz Wright
Review by Luke Hankins
Into the Artworld
Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton
Artworld Prestige by Timothy Van Laar and Leonard Diepeveen
Review by Theodore L. Prescott
A Thirst for Precision
Meditation of a Modern Believer
My Bright Abyss by Christian Wiman
Review by Kelly Foster
Feeding on Light
Entering the House of Awe by Susanna Childress
The Ninety-Third Name of God by Anya Krugovoy Silver
Sky Burial by Dana Levin
Review by Amy Newman
Doxologies and Admonitions
Psalm by Carol Ann Davis
Epistles: Poems by Mark Jarman
Gomer’s Song by Kwame Dawes
Review by Hannah Faith Notess
The Heart of the Whole
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
Review by Santiago Ramos
Racism Lives Here: Does God?
The New Testament by Jericho Brown
Lighting the Shadow by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Boy with Thorn by Rickey Laurentiis
Review by Lisa Ampleman
The Logic of Wonder
The Portal of Beauty: Toward a Theology of Aesthetics by Bruno Forte
Earthly Visions: Theology and the Challenges of Art by T.J. Gorringe
Faith, Hope and Poetry: Theology and the Poetic Imagination by Malcolm Guite
Ravished by Beauty: The Surprising Legacy of Reformed Spirituality by Belden C. Lane
Review by Steven Guthrie
Blessed Are Those Who Yearn
New Poetry in Review
The Glacier’s Wake by Katy Didden
God Loves You by Kathryn Maris
Incarnadine by Mary Szybist
Review by Melissa Range
The Reclusive Novel
Community, Tradition, and Loneliness
Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
by Dave Eggers
High as the Horses’ Bridles by Scott Cheshire
Review by Bryan Bliss
The Wages of Sin
Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks (Viking Press, 2011)
Faith by Jennifer Haigh (Harper, 2011)
The Color of Night by Madison Smartt Bell (Vintage, 2011)
The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak (Bellevue Literary Press, 2011)
Review by David McGlynn