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Holiday Books

    
No Religion, Please

    

    
Created 12/05/2011 - 12:53pm

    
Peter Steinfels

    
    

    

            

                    
For the umpteenth straight year, the New York Times’s massive “Holiday Books” edition of the Sunday Book Review gives no attention to books about religion.  This makes perfect sense.  Isn’t the “Holiday Books” edition a very commercial effort oriented toward gift-giving?  And doesn’t everyone know that the traditional holiday for giving people books is January 1, New Year’s Day?

        

        




Read Peter Steinfels's post on the perplexing lack of religion coverage in the New York Times's "Holday Books" edition of the Sunday Book Review here.



    

            

                            

        





    



    

    
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