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JUNE BOOK BLOG
• "Fresh" prose paces summary of all of human history, from the Christian Science Monitor.
- From Augustine to Barth: "the roots of political theology"; and the history of the military chaplaincy, from First Things.
- Hannah Arendt's judgment about evil, from Dissent magazine.
- Serendipity in scientific discovery, from the American Scientist.
- Trotsky and the two Russian revolutions, from the Atlantic Monthly.
- How the queen became the most powerful chess piece, from the Boston Globe.
- The roots of wine-making: ancient viniculture, from the American Scientist, and feasts in history, from the New York Review of Books.
- Spain's reign in the age of the explorers, from the New York Times .
- Men's clothes in American history, from Common-place.
- How Pullman porters faced racism and opportunity, from the San Francisco Chronicle.
- How the Pentagon censors war movies, from the Boston Globe.
- Adaptation of Dante's Divine Comedy ponders paradise and parking lots, from the London Review of Books.
- Dale Peck blasts contemporary fiction for being "increasingly esoteric and exclusionary, falsely intellectual and alienating," from the New York Review of Books.
- Novel imagines Noah's family life aboard the ark, from the Christian Science Monitor.
- Like its setting in the Ganges delta, novel has "a melancholic and fragile beauty," says the Economist.
- "Cerebral satire" about a reluctant spiritual healer diagnoses health care system, from the Christian Science Monitor.
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Nathan Bierma is editorial assistant at Books & Culture. He writes the weekly "On Language" column for the Chicago Tribune.
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