Cullen Murphy, Author . Houghton Mifflin $23 (262p) ISBN 978-0-618-74222-6
Lurid images of America as a new Roman Empire—either striding the globe or tottering toward collapse, or both—are fashionable among pundits of all stripes these days. Vanity Fair
editor Murphy (The World According to Eve
) gives the...
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Cullen Murphy, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $21.95 (251p) ISBN 978-0-395-70099-0
Murphy (coauthor with William Rathje of Rubbish: The Archaeology of Garbage) here collects 37 of his essays, 36 previously published in the Atlantic Monthly, where he is managing editor, and one in Harper's. The pieces are characterized by Murphy's...
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Cullen Murphy, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $24 (302p) ISBN 978-0-395-70113-3
Murphy, managing editor of the Atlantic Monthly, takes his cue from Catholic theologian David Tracy's remark that the encounter of feminism with religion would be ""the next intellectual revolution."" In a brilliant survey of the work of women...
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Cullen Murphy. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-618-09156-0
In 1998, the Vatican opened the Archivio della Congregazione per Dottrina della Fede, the Inquisition archive, thereby unveiling to the world the secrets of censorship and persecution that the Catholic Church had hidden since the Middle Ages....
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Cullen Murphy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (272p) ISBN 978-0-374-29855-5
Vanity Fair editor at large Murphy (God’s Jury) captures a slice of American pop culture from the mid-20th century, when a prominent group of comic-strip and gag cartoonists, known as the Connecticut School, resided in the town of Greenwich, Conn....
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