For true and false will in no better way be revealed and uncovered than in resistance to a contradiction.~~ST....

For everything hidden must be revealed, each secret longs to be disclosed, each love yearns to be betrayed, everything...

18 February 2010 By Peter Bebergal In 1964, a year after he was fired from Harvard University, Timothy Leary, together...

The “Hindu face of the Taliban” is making trouble for canoodling couples in India. Self-proclaimed morality police, the vigilantes...

Peter Manseau: When Pope Benedict XVI visited Auschwitz in 2006, the prayer service he led began with the words

Mark Dery reviews the great J.G. Ballard

Sharlet: It's a treat to be able to announce that Songs for the Butcher's Daughter, by Revealer contributing editor...

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A maverick Jewish record producer with an ear for black music teams up with artists considered behind the times...

Jack Black reprises his Mr. Show role as Jeepers Creepers -- aka Jesus -- in the all-star, too late,...

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

There's the ghost of a religion story in most memorials, and so it is with Jonathan Taylor's concise account...

Sharlet: I recently met an activist and memoirist named Michael Patrick McDonald, who for his second book, Easter...

Introducing... Revealer fiction. Relax, fact fans, The Revealer isn't about to go all literary on you. But longtime Revealer...

Sharlet: One of the upcoming books I'm most excited about is Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement, by former...

Sharlet: I'm using the thinnest of threads to tie my friend Kio's new blog, Municipal Archive, to The...

There is no news, scholarly, or artistic value in this link. Just a glorious example of fundamentalist funk, Holy...

Every now and then, The Revealer receives some books for review that none of us are ever going to...

We've got head hunters, big dams, holy Wal-Mart, and all kinds of Jesus, available to YOU, this fall, absolutely...

Sharlet: An essay of mine from last year's Oxford American Southern Music Annual, "The People's Singer," made the cut...

A left critic on what secular humanists don't get about Christianity in America. By Robert Christgau. (Excerpted from Truthdig.com)

The "New Atheists," as writers such as Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens are known, are...

Ashley Makar: I was late to my Egyptian baptism. Over twenty-four years and ten minutes late. It might...

John Locke, the 17th century philosopher most commonly associated with the concept of tolerance, "argues from Protestant premises most...