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Trial lawyers preach a cardinal principle: never ask a question to which you don't know the answer. Diplomats generally operate on the same basis. So when the Bush Administration presented evidence to North Korean leaders on Oct. 3 that their country was developing nuclear weapons, it expected the regime...
Horn’s imagery often alludes to Biblical scenes while depicting everyday life. For example, when Leora, whose search for meaning is one of the novel’s central themes, stands at a seal tank in a zoo with her boyfriend, the narrator evokes the parting of the...
In the Image begins with a snapshot in time, a single event that propels the narrative both forward and backward: the death of Naomi Landsmann, Leora’s best and only friend. This event causes Leora to meet Naomi’s grandfather, Bill, whose passion for Biblical photographs...
At heart, Bill and Leora’s stories deal with the function of art and its failure to provide meaning. The snapshot depictions of holy life that they expect will lead to epiphany ironically blind both from seeing how their own lives fit together. One of Horn�...
Perhaps the problem with the legacy of Abraham is that all three monotheistic faiths have yet to come to terms with the historical development of their own traditions. If we could see all sacred scriptures as a common record of the universal human search for meaning and not as the...