Today's Inquirer reviews ...

... I size up John Banville's latest Benjamin Black opus: Irish novelist returns to action mode.
Note: The following paragraph should be in italic - and was when I sent it in; it's a quote from the book:

His reports on Northern Ireland during the Troubles, on the massacre in Tiananmen Square, on the Rwandan genocide, on the intifada, on the bloody afternoon in Srebrenica, not so much reports as extended and passionate jeremiads - there would be no more of them. Something had ceased in him, a light had been extinguished, he did not know why.

... Randall Miller looks at The abandoned Catholics.

... Caroline Berson ponders Warrier Girls: For their sports, women play hard but hurt harder.

... finally, this from AP: Trying to be a good man, facing penance again.