Family Best

December 29, 2008
Sharlet: It's a New Year's treat to have my book, The Family, included on the top 10 list...

The Smart Set

December 29, 2008
Tim Townsend of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch responds to the Religion Newswriters Association’s dull list of top ten list...
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Beyond the Best

December 28, 2008
13 dispatches from the forgotten frontiers, crooked paths, and cul-de-sacs of religion reporting in America. By Jeff Sharlet Last week, I...

A Well-Wrought Urn

December 28, 2008
“It’s not the vase, it’s what you put in it.” That’s what Carlos Williams, the missionary hero of this...

Ignoring Their Religion

December 21, 2008
Why is Rick Warren being given a pulpit at the inauguration? In large part because the press has already...

Travel the Spaceways

December 12, 2008
And Oxford Americanize your ears. By Jeff Sharlet Every year I plug the annual Oxford American Southern Music Issue here on...

Brown-Eyed Jewish Soul

December 12, 2008
A maverick Jewish record producer with an ear for black music teams up with artists considered behind the times...
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What We Cared About, 2008

December 11, 2008
Some of the most interesting texts of 2008, selected by the contributing editors of The Revealer. Annual "Best Book" lists...

Dreaming of Oz in Mumbai

December 5, 2008
S. Brent Plate: In the wake of the terrorist attacks on Mumbai, one of The New York Times most...

Kosher collapse

December 4, 2008
Elizabeth Dwoskin details the collapse of a kosher empire for the Village Voice. This is one of the best...

Anglicans Toot Somebody Else's Horn

December 4, 2008
Every major paper covered the formation of the Anglican Church of North America, comprised of 100,000 now-former members of...

Odetta, 1930-2008

December 3, 2008
Odetta, 1930-2008. “Some folks sing songs,” writes Richard Corliss in Time. “Odetta testified.” But Corliss gets one thing wrong:...

Left, Right, Emerging

December 1, 2008
Sharlet: Emergent evangelical writer Tony Jones, author of The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier responds to my...

Details Deuteronomy

December 1, 2008
Reading power lists -- those loathsome magazine compilations of the best and most publicized -- is a bit like...

Calvin, Again

December 1, 2008
Marilynne Robinson’s “extemporizing on, say, Karl Marx’s Capital is often punctuated with laughter and blithe phrases such as ‘Oh,...

Under God, Underground

November 29, 2008
Gawker, as usual, brings us the religion news: The Rev. George M. Docherty, a Scotsman who advocated for adding...

Book Criticians and Pentecostalists

November 29, 2008
Why didn’t any editor at the NYT Book Review flag Virginia Heffernan’s use of the term “Pentecostalist” to describe...

A God Called Literary

November 25, 2008
In "Two Paths for the Novel," a recent New York Review of Books essay, novelist Zadie Smith hits it...

Anti-Oogedy-Boogedyism

November 25, 2008
Leftist blogger Frederick Clarkson is wondering why conservative columnist Kathleen Parker isn’t being taken for the woodshed for her...

Palin Marches On

November 24, 2008
Sharlet: Just so I can be a shmuck and say "I told you so" later, I'm siding with William...

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