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Imitation of Life

… If I had a nickel for every time this year a controversy-stoking Twitter … nude body). That bravery, combined with extraordinary talent, hard work, and ambition, … asides. They remind the reader, like an old-time radio announcer setting the scene in a …
By Dorothy Fortenberry
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Why the West?

Bernd Roeck traces the roots of the Renaissance as far back as the sixth millennium BCE. His long view of history explores the “why” of Western culture’s success.
By Tom Verde
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'Of This World'—On the Altar

Hosts and 'Commonweal' contributors Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Nick Tabor chat with professor and author Jonathan Sheehan about the history of sacrifice, from the sacred to the secular.
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Twice Blest

For Christopher Ricks, the critic is in the business of catching at felicities: those seeming accidents of language that end up being revelatory.
By Anthony Domestico
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