Recovering our sanity.
The Decomposition of Man: Identity, Technocracy, and the Church
James Kalb
Angelico Press, £17, 228 pages
I am sitting outside a coffee shop on the main street of Lander, Wyoming. A brown sparrow alights near my table, joining the already various pedestrian traffic: tanned climbers emerge from their bumper-stickered Subaru; a couple stroll out of the local college chapel down the street; overweight grandparents are walking their dogs; a bow-kneed old cowboy creaks out of his pick-up truck; a tattooed youngster with dyed hair flies past on his skateboard. For each, an entirely different identity of which Lander somehow forms a common part.
