Looking Elsewhere

Specials: Harry Potter; Mother Teresa; Wilson on Atheism Books; Cummings on Satyajit Ray

Jeffrey Overstreet

24 Aug 2007 • 1 min read

Filed under: Looking Elsewhere • On Books & Writing • Amy Wellborn • Andy Whitman • Atheism • Books and Culture • Doug Cummings • Harry Potter • Harry Potter and the Curse of Evangelical Paranoia • John Wilson • Mother Teresa • Satyajit Ray

I'm a week late to this blog entry, but wow...

Andy Whitman

writes about music better than just about anybody I know. And now he's posted a home-run entry about Harry Potter.

Yesterday I posted news about the new book on Mother Teresa. Here's more on Mother Teresa's dark night of the soul, from Amy Wellborn.

Here's a list you haven't seen before: John Wilson, the voracious reader who edits Books and Culture, rates his top five books on atheism. Know before you debate!

Doug Cummings has seen Satyajit Ray's shorts. I mean... two short films that he made early in his career.

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Of course, most moviegoers haven't even seen the Apu trilogy. (I hadn't until a couple of years ago.) And I'd encourage anyone who loves great storytelling to seek it out, even if you can't do better than the shoddy VHS or DVD editions currently available in the U.S.