Outside Looking In

"One of the country's most distinguished intellectuals [and] one of its most provocative." - The New York Times Look out for a new book from Garry Wills,  What the Qur'an Meant , coming fall 2017. Bookish and retiring, Garry Wills has been an outsider in the academy, in journalism, even in his church. Yet these qualities have, paradoxically, prompted people to share intimate insights with him- perhaps because he is not a rival, a competitor, or a threat. Sometimes this made him the prey of