A book I like to teach

Cover Story in the October 14, 2015 issue

The Century asked college and seminary professors to write about one of their favorite books to teach. Their replies are linked below.

Scott Samuelson: Discourses and Selected Writings, by Epictetus

Laurie Maffly-Kipp: The Damnation of Theron Ware, by Harold Frederic

Brian Bantum: The Souls of Black Folk, by W. E. B. Du Bois

Alan Jacobs: Ulysses, by James Joyce

Damayanthi M. A. Niles: The Lotus and the Sun, by D. Preman Niles

Richard Rosengarten: Hayy ibn Yaqzan, by Ibn Tufayl

Frederick Niedner: Silence, by Shusaku Endo

Jonathan Tran: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, by Anne Fadiman

Kendra Weddle Irons: Welcome to the Wisdom of the World and Its Meaning for You, by Joan Chittister

Steve Young: The Dark Interval, by John Dominic Crossan

This review appears in the October 14, 2015 issue.

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

The “great American game” is played to win and to exclude. Lamar’s halftime show made the case for turning our attention to something better.

Ros Schwartz’s translation of The Need for Roots makes Weil’s masterpiece feel as urgent today as it was in 1943.

The vice president’s mangling of the Christian ordo amoris is just a smokescreen for the largest deportation operation in American history.

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