Christmas picks

Features in the December 9, 2015 issue

Detail from Nativity (2006), by Brian Kershisnik

Eleven writers make their selections:

This article appears in the December 9, 2015 issue.

By egregiously misreading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s moral crisis, it primes viewers for violence.

Franklin Graham cares about Trump’s language. So does Jesus, but for very different reasons.

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In the Parable novels, Octavia Butler imagines not just a dystopian future but also a way to survive it.

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