The Pontius Pilate Project
A week from today, I’ll be starting a new course: an MPhil in New Testament studies. My dissertation project is about Pontius Pilate, specifically his representation in the accounts of … Continue reading
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Margot Lee Shetterly’s father was an engineer, defying the odds stacked against him in segregation-era America. As she says in the introduction to her book, “as late as 1970, just … Continue reading
The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English
As for me, if I stumble, the mercies of God shall be my eternal salvation. If I stagger because of the sin of flesh, my justification shall be by the … Continue reading
Graphic Novels Week on VL
When I was younger, comic books were flimsy things full of muscular superheroes. At some point in the last quarter century, they became much more substantial, not just as physical … Continue reading
Coming Up This Week
We’re cooking with gas this week on Vulpes Libris! On Monday, Jackie follows John Grisham’s evolution through Gray Mountain. On Wednesday, Sharon enjoys a novel set in Spain before the civil war. … Continue reading
Coming Up as June Begins
The beginning of June is considered the start of summer, so it’s appropriate that we have a post on the very summery sport of surfing, as Book Fox Lisa launches … Continue reading
First World War, a website
We are so used to thinking of WW1 as a precursor for the Second, that it’s a bit startling to find something devoted only to that “war to end all … Continue reading
The Pleasures of the Imagination
This book by John Brewer (a reissue from its 1997 incarnation) is a monster. It’s a huge, magnificently illustrated and pleasingly well produced slab of a book on eighteenth-century British … Continue reading
Singapore high-rise
Lee Jing-Jing’s novel If I Could Tell You is haunting, affectionate, honest, and placidly down-to-earth. I couldn’t put it down: her writing is beautifully subtle, and the story winds you … Continue reading
It’s complicated
When I was 14 or so, the Russians invaded Afghanistan, and I thought, this is it, the next world war. I remained nervous about the Middle East at the back … Continue reading
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