Matthew Power

Jun 30, 2024 | laphamsquarterly.org | Michael Dirda |Matthew Power |Nathaniel Rich |Caroline Alexander

When we look at the history of the world, it resembles nothing so much as a police blotter. Even the Bible is predominantly a record of crime and punishment, of sinfulness, large-scale and trivial, followed by rather Technicolor retribution—floods, plagues, ethnic cleansing, holocausts of every description.