“Jeff Sharlet delivers a fine dose of thoughtful skepticism in [this] collection of 13 trenchant essays on how we gain, lose, maintain and blindly accept faith,” writes Washburn.
“The book belongs to the tradition of long-form, narrative journalism best exemplified by writers such as Joan Didion, John McPhee, Norman Mailer and Sharlet’s contemporary David Samuels. Sharlet deserves a place alongside such masters, for he has emerged as a master investigative stylist and one of the shrewdest commentators on religion’s underexplored realms.”
Read the full review, published by The Washington Post on 08/19/11.
