Another Turn of the Crank
8 best books like Another Turn of the Crank (Wendell Berry): But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past, Dr. Faustus, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes, Living Gently in a Violent World: The Prophetic Witness of Weakness, Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life, Disruptive Witness
But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
| Author | Chuck Klosterman |
| ISBN | 0399184120 |
We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there’s nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what has already been defined and accepted is (probably) pretty close...
| Author | Christopher Marlowe |
| ISBN | 0486282082 |
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust, that was first performed sometime between 1588 and Marlowe's death in 1593. Two different...
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
| Author | Joan Didion |
| ISBN | 0374521727 |
My mother was a freshman in college when I was a freshman in high school. Married at seventeen, her 1960s and 70s were spent as a young wife and mother of four. It wasn't until she divorced at thirty-six, the same year Ronald Reagan ushered in the folly of trickle-down economics and the prison-industrial...
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
| Author | Michael Chabon |
| ISBN | 0007149824 |
For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. Proud, grateful, and longing to be American, the Jews...
Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes
| Author | Shauna Niequist |
| ISBN | 0310328179 |
This book is a collection of essays about family relationships, friendships, and the meals that bring us together. Written by well-loved writer and blogger, Shauna Niequist, this mix of Girl Meets God and the Food Network is a funny, honest, and vulnerable spiritual memoir. Bread & Wine is a celebration...
| Author | Stanley Hauerwas |
| ISBN | 0830834524 |
How are Christians to live in a violent and wounded world? Rather than contending for privilege by wielding power and authority, we can witness prophetically from a position of weakness. The church has much to learn from an often overlooked community--those with disabilities. In this fascinating...
Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life
| Author | Shauna Niequist |
| ISBN | 0310273609 |
Cold Tangerines is a collection of stories that celebrate the extraordinary moments hidden in our everyday lives. It is about God, and about life, and about the thousands of daily ways in which an awareness of God changes and infuses everything. It is about spiritual life, and about all the things that...
We live in a distracted, secular age. These two trends define life in Western society today. We are increasingly addicted to habits―and devices―that distract and "buffer" us from substantive reflection and deep engagement with the world. And we live in what Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor...
