“The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ”
by Joseph Bottum
Filed under Book Reviews
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ By Philip Pullman Canongate, 256 pages, $24 Teenage sex will save the world—teenage sex, in all its precocious power, in all its precious emotion, in all its self-confirming belief that, because something is felt so deeply, it must be a deeply meaningful thing. If that seems a somewhat prurient thought for a middle-aged author, it is nonetheless the final revelation of the His Dark Materials trilogy, the set of children’s books written by Philip... Read More
