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Book Reviews:

• New C.S. Lewis biography fails to improve on A.N. Wilson's 1990 volume, says the Boston Globe.

• The coming evangelical consensus, in brief from First Things.
• Is there such a thing as Islamo-Christian civilization? from The Nation.
• Reviews of The Pope in Winter (here, from the London Telegraph) and You Are Peter (here, from First Things).
• Friedrich Nietzsche, gifted musician and music critic, from First Things.
• Classical liberalism as a 'missionary faith," from the New Statesman.
• Why the racism of 19th-century southerners wasn't so black-and-white, from the Atlantic Monthly.
• Liberty-loving slave owners and other contradictions, from The Nation.
• Seven books on racial inequality in education, from the New York Review of Books, and Stanley Crouch on race and authenticity, from the New Criterion.
• Three families who shaped the city of Washington, D.C., from the Washington Post.
• Iraq and the ethics of nation-building, from the Washington Post.
• Collection of 'everyday' journalism from Black Hawk Down author, from the New York Times.*
• Latin America during the Cold War, from the London Review of Books.
• Imperial Britain: more diverse than you think, says the London Times.
• A new translation of Sophocles' Antigone, from the Christian Science Monitor.
• When government goes too far, from King John to John Ashcroft, in the New York Review of Books.
• Bombay: claustrophobe's nightmare, from the New York Times. *
• Fraud in science, from the New York Review of Books.
• Witchcraft in Baroque Germany, from the London Guardian.
• How to saw someone in half for a magic show, from the London Telegraph.

• Queen Christina of Sweden—P.J. Wodenhouse—Frank Lloyd Wright - Ted Turner
• One author's search for solitude on desolate Amsterdam Island, from the Economist.
• James Wood on Muriel Spark in the Atlantic Monthly.
• Repair your poetry, from the Christian Science Monitor; Best Poetry '04 released, new Phillip Levine collection, umpteenth book on the state of poetry, from the NYT.
• Canadian novelist Alice Munro's excellence exceeds her fame, says Jonathan Franzen in the New York Times.*
• Tom Wolfe's latest novel offers "little more than cardboard cut-outs" in campus setting, says the Economist.
• British author's children's book on dealing with grief, from the Guardian.
• Best picks:
• fiction/non-fiction, from the Christian Science Monitor; editor's choices from the NYT. *
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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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