Sunday book pick: In ‘Such a Long Journey’, how an ordinary heart travels in turbulent times
Related Articles
-
Time travel and surveillance state paranoia collide in a witty, thought-provoking romance novel
“People aren’t history,” scoffs Adela, vice secretary of the Ministry, whose work is shrouded in secrecy and subterfuge. This retort comes late in Kaliane Bradley’s debut novel, “The Ministry of Time,” but it’s a telling line. Its dismissal of individual lives reveals the novel’s stakes. If people aren’t history, what is? This is a disturbing statement to come out of the mouth of a high-ranking British bureaucrat. For a book that could also be easily described as witty, sexy escapist fiction,...
-
Sunday Thoughts: The Ransom
One of my favorite movies is Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 classic “High and Low.” It’s not a samurai film; it’s a contemporary story based on an Ed McBain novel. It neatly divides into halves: one half a kidnapping drama and the other half a police procedural about finding the kidnapper.
-
Sunday Thoughts: Never Anonymous
As Christians, we tend to emphasize the heroic men and women of the Bible and from church history — and rightly so since they’re the names and histories that we know. But how often have you thought about the incidental people in the Bible?