LaVonne Neff > LIVELY DUST

In June my husband, who gets lots of review copies unbidden, asked me if I wanted to read Mark Shriver's memoir about his father, Sargen...

This sixth installment in the Commissario Guido Brunetti series raises provocative religious and political questions. The story line leads ...

Here's a book you may not run across in your local bookstore (if you're lucky enough to still have one: my town has shut down Toad H...

"Why in the hell would an intelligent Episcopalian woman choose to become a Catholic?" I had been a Catholic for less than six mo...

When my father died in 1995, he immediately strode back into my imagination as the healthy, middle-aged man of my childhood, adolescence, an...

If you like Anne Lamott's nonfiction, you'll love  Lit . If you find Lamott's essays just a teensy bit irritating, try  Lit  any...

Publishers will tell you that it's hard to interest people in books about social justice. Most of us feel guilty enough already. Besides...

Is it too much to ask of a historical novel that it be, well, historical? Alas, The Memoirs of Mary Queen of Scots , soon to be released in...

If you're interested in African colonial history or cross-cultural evangelism or feminist sociology, or if you'd just like to read a...

Here's a page-turning historical novel that will appeal to women who like Tudor England, chaste romances, and a clear demarcation betw...

This review was originally published in Books and Culture online  (October 2008) as "Abstinence Now and Then." In Tom Perrotta...