skopia
Christianity as a three-thousand-year argument, beginning with Greece and Israel long before Christ. MacCulloch refuses to tell it as a Western story: after eight centuries, Baghdad looked a likelier capital than Rome.
In August 1974 a man steps onto a wire between the Twin Towers. Below him McCann gathers the whole city: an Irish monk living among Bronx prostitutes, Park Avenue mothers grieving Vietnam.
Jung induced his own visions and argued with the figures he met there, then set it down in medieval script and painted mandalas. He said everything he wrote afterward was mere elaboration.
Six volumes of one man's life recorded to the last cornflake and cigarette, and at the center a father who drank himself to death, leaving a house his sons had to scrub clean.
The artist Robert Irwin gave up the image, then the frame, then the object, until only seeing was left. Weschler recorded three decades of his talk, and reading it retrains your eye.