Peter Manseau
By Peter Manseau
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Culture Excerpt: Peter Manseau’s ‘Rag and Bone’
© 2009 by Peter Manseau. Reprinted by arrangement with Henry Holt and Company, LLC This is a book about dismembered toes, splinters of shinbone, stolen bits of hair, burned remnants of an anonymous rib cage, and other odds and ends of human remains, but it is not a book about death. Around every one of…
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Culture Episcopalian, By Way of Yiddish
Confessions of a Jewish Priest: From Secular Jewish War Refugee to Physicist and Episcopal Clergyman By Gabriel Weinreich Pilgrim Press, 177 pages, $25. * * *| ‘Yiddish has magic,” the linguist Max Weinreich once said. “It will outwit history.” But history, it turns out, also has a few tricks up its sleeve. For evidence, look…
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Culture Crafting Modern Midrash in the Form of Fiction
Fallen By David Maine St. Martin’s Press, 256 pages, $23.95. * * *| In this strange time when even ideas about the beginning of the world have become a political battleground, it seems there is no story that so sharply divides as the biblical account of creation. When Arizona Christians lobby to install verses from…
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Culture A New Novel Tears Down a Sacred Shrine
One of the more surprising moments in recent music history comes midway through the celebrated 1998 indie rock album “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea,” by the band Neutral Milk Hotel. Hiding in otherwise understated tune are some startling lyrics: I know they buried her body with others Her sister and mother and five hundred…
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Culture Nailing Down a Film’s Legacy
Around this time last year, on the brink of Easter, the humble nail came into its own as a religious symbol. Tiny silver pendants in the shape of railroad spikes were among the many marketing tie-ins produced in connection with Mel Gibson’s cinematic phenomenon, “The Passion of the Christ.” Amid the dueling choruses of consternation…
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