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Murakami's fiction, which has sold millions of copies to under-30s in his homeland and made him the West's favorite Japanese writer, has always been about such epiphanies. The 1995 Kobe earthquake looms in the background of these stories: none are actually set in Kobe, but none would...
America, a country born with a sense that divine providence was paying close attention from the start, has always had a weakness for prophecy. With its deep religious history but no established church, this country welcomes religious free-lancers and entrepreneurs. Both the visionaries and the con artists have access...
In the post-Civil War decades American Evangelicals seized on Darby like a life preserver. At the time of the Scofield Bible's publication in 1909, they were establishing a set of "fundamentals," which included painstaking interpretations of Scripture. Darby's scheme became a pillar of the new Fundamentalism. (The...
“Obviously other pastors have not been standing up for God’s law here, because this is a cold and wicked environment,” Ovadal said, holding his copy of the Bible.
If the innocents of The Winter Zoo are looking for pleasure, Vladimir Girshkin, the hero of Gary Shteyngart's first novel, The Russian Debutante's Handbook, is after money. Girshkin isn't so much an expatriate but a repatriate--born in Leningrad and raised in New York City. Girshkin does...