Articles — The Revealer

Better than Mudwrestling

April 24, 2004

“It is easy to think of Vatican II, which convened during Armstrong’s convent years, as a switch that was...

The Invention of Journalism

April 23, 2004

“Junior used to say he liked to live in hotels because he was a son of Englishmen. When he...

This is The End

March 29, 2004

In honor of Glorious Appearing, the 12th installment of the mega-best-selling Left Behind series, a true tale of the apocalypse from Revealer editor Jeff...

Who Wrote What, When

March 18, 2004

At Eichler’s bookstore in Flatbush (that’s in Brooklyn, folks), Marc Shapiro‘s new book has been flying off the shelves; at...

"The Ice Storm," the Sermon

March 15, 2004

Sometimes an ice storm is just an ice storm; but sometimes, as in Barbara Nicolosi‘s exegesis of Ang Lee‘s film of Rick Moody‘s novel The...

Review

You Can Sit On It, You Can Put Your Coffee On It, You Could Make It A Home Entertainment Center -- It's a Religion!

March 7, 2004

The McSweeney’s gang has graced us with the publication of William T. Vollman‘s seven-volume exploration of violence, Rising Up, Rising Down; one is...

Saturday Psalm

February 14, 2004

“The preaching is Baptist, long and good, about the generations springing up and being cut down like grass. The...

Ca-razy for Kabbalah

February 5, 2004

David Klinghoffer writes erudite but peculiar books. In one, he recalled his teenage self-circumcision as part of a “conversion” experience...

Paperless God

January 13, 2004

“The Death of the Book,” by S. David Marsh, is not, strictly speaking, a religion story. Yet by virtue of...