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by Rebecca Goldstein
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by David Hopen
Published Aug 2021
Read ReviewsA commanding debut and a poignant coming-of-age story about a devout Jewish high school student whose plunge into the secularized world threatens everything he knows of himself.
by Cara Wall
Published Jul 2020
Read ReviewsA luminous debut novel about two young couples whose lives become intertwined when the husbands are appointed co-ministers of a venerable New York City church in the 1960s, spanning decades - for readers of Ann Patchett and Nicole Krauss.
by Lesley Hazleton
Published Apr 2017
Read ReviewsA widely admired writer on religion celebrates agnosticism as the most vibrant, engaging - and ultimately the most honest - stance toward the mysteries of existence.
by Hari Kunzru
Published Jan 2013
Read ReviewsViscerally gripping and intellectually engaging, Gods Without Men is, above all, a heartfelt exploration of the search for pattern and meaning in a chaotic universe.
by Alex Shakar
Published May 2012
Read ReviewsDo you feel... Your life is without purpose? Your days are without meaning? There's something about existence you're just not getting?
by Robert Hellenga
Published Sep 2011
Read ReviewsA novel packed with wit, substance, and emotional depth, Snakewoman of Little Egypt delivers Robert Hellenga at the top of his form.
by Scarlett Thomas
Published May 2011
Read ReviewsSmart, entrancing, and boiling over with Thomas's trademark big ideas, Our Tragic Universe is a book about how relationships are created and destroyed, how we can rewrite our futures (if not our histories), and how stories just might save our lives.
by Howard Jacobson
Published Oct 2010
Read ReviewsThe Finkler Question is a scorching story of friendship and loss, exclusion and belonging, and of the wisdom and humanity of maturity. Funny, furious, unflinching, this extraordinary novel shows one of our finest writers at his brilliant best.
by Victor LaValle
Published Mar 2010
Read ReviewsA fiendishly imaginative comic novel about doubt, faith, and the monsters we carry within us.
by Uzma Aslam Khan
Published Sep 2009
Read ReviewsThe Geometry of God is a novel one can read greedily, following four characters as their lives unfold against the backdrop of General Zias Pakistan, where religious fundamentalism gains ground and the mujaheddin is funded by gem sales and the Americans.
by Christopher Hitchens
Published Apr 2009
Read ReviewsHitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope's awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the double helix.
by Richard Dawkins
Published Jan 2008
Read ReviewsThe God Delusion makes a compelling case that belief in God is not just wrong but potentially deadly. It also offers exhilarating insight into the advantages of atheism to the individual and society, not the least of which is a clearer, truer appreciation of the universe's wonders than any faith could ever muster.
by Dara Horn
Published Oct 2006
Read ReviewsWith astonishing grace and simplicity, Dara Horn interweaves a real art heist, history, biography, theology, and Yiddish literature. Richly satisfying, utterly unique, her novel opens the door to "the world to come"not life after death, but the world we create through our actions right now.
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