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Called Out Of Darkness: A Spiritual ConfessionBy Anne RiceKnopf; 245 pp.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anne Rice's Spiritual Confession | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

The Lowdown:Called out of Darkness is catnip for devout Christians: Rice's conversion is disorganized enough to sound real, her eagerness to embrace confession and discipleship is inspiring, and her arguments in a passage on "Christmas Christianity" suggest Rice could rival C.S. Lewis as a popular apologist for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anne Rice's Spiritual Confession | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

“My characters are galley slaves,” Vladimir Nabokov told the Paris Review in 1967—and he was telling the truth. It isn’t difficult to imagine any one of his memorable protagonists as helpless prisoners, each chained to his oar on...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Indignation’ Incites Anger | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

Stephen Pound, the Labour MP from Ealing North, will advocate caliginosity (dimness, darkness) on the floor of Parliament. "I shall be drawing the Prime Minister's attention in a fairly obscure and abstruse way to the word: 'Amid the global fiscal turmoil, we sought illumination but found only caliginosity.' " The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hangman, Spare That Word: The English Purge Their Language | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

It's that type of confidence that serves as our light in the climatic darkness, living proof that hope hasn't vanished. You need that comfort when you're standing on a rocky hilltop in Greenland, watching the ice disappear. As Jakobshavn gives way to the fjord, a stadium-size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unfrozen Tundra | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

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