Kevin Roose’s The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University is amazing, nuanced and fascinating and sophisticated and not the least bit exploitative. It’s about a Brown student (the author) who decides to spend a semester at Liberty University in Virginia (the college Jerry Falwell built), and I was sort of expecting some evangelical-bashing, but the author (who must be about 21) has a really smart and compassionate perspective, without losing sight of the genuinely distressing, surreal and downright ridiculous aspects of American evangelical Christianity. It’s very engrossing, compelling non-fiction.