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October 2021 Books

Intimations: Six Essays

By Zadie Smith. Penguin Books, 2020. 112 pages. $10.95/paperback; $6.99/eBook. In her foreword to Intimations, written on May 31, 2020, novelist Zadie…

Reviewed by Carl Blumenthal

Claiming Joy: An Invitation

I’ve got that joy, joy, joy, joy Down in my heart, down in my heart, down in my heart. I’ve…

Nancy L. Bieber

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The Third Reconstruction

It's time to get America above the snake line of racial oppression.

William J. Barber II

Interview with Ashley Merryman

Co-author of Nurtureshock Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman have been making a lot of waves in the past two years…

Jana Llewellyn

Mary Fisher: Maidservant Turned Prophet

When Friends in Moscow recently designed a postcard to share the message of Quakerism, the 17th-century Quaker they chose to…

Marcelle Martin

A Visit to Israel by a Quaker Jew Born in Palestine

For years I vowed never to return to Palestine, my birthplace, because, as a Jew—albeit a secular Jew—I felt a…

Stanley Zarowin

Abraham: A Less-than-Perfect Choice

That’s exactly what I don’t like about so many Bible stories—they’re unfair." The Friend who made this comment has a…

Anthony Prete

The Politics of Water: A Case in Brazil

The Cedar Reservoir of Quixadà, Cearà, is one of the most beautiful spots in Brazil. I sat there for hours…

Nicholas Arons

Quakers, Sexuality, and Spirituality

Talking about sex in any context, even a Quaker one, can be dangerous because we don’t all use the same…

John Calvi

Crossing the Monkey Bridge Together

One of my summer camp highlights as a child was to help build the Monkey Bridge every year and then…

Mary Klein