Essential books: Spring books

Cover Story in the April 30, 2014 issue

Human family tree from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Some rights reserved by Ryan Somma

Our fall books issue includes annotated lists of essential titles in the following subject areas:

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.

In the last year of his life, Martin Luther King Jr.’s confidence in the politics of progressivism dimmed. Judgment became his refrain.

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

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