Marilynne Robinson and the Mystery of Grace
by Moriah SpecialeMarilynne Robinson's Gilead should be read as a summa pietatis rather than a summa theologiae. Continue Reading »
Marilynne Robinson's Gilead should be read as a summa pietatis rather than a summa theologiae. Continue Reading »
Why are old people so invisible in our “culture”? Continue Reading »
Murray’s poems pack an impossible amount of meaning into short lines. Continue Reading »
Murray’s writing about the landscape and mores of rural Australia drew attention in his home country. Continue Reading »
In the early 1880s, Henry James set out to write “a very American tale.” The result was The Bostonians, serialized in a magazine in 1885 and then published in a single volume in 1886. The novel features activist meetings, conversations sprinkled with references to the cause of women’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Les Murray's work helped raise his nation's poetry to a level of global importance. Continue Reading »
Though George Saunders may have formally left the Church, its forms didn’t leave him. Continue Reading »
The Aviator by eugene vodolazkin translated by lisa c. hayden oneworld, 400 pages, $26.99 In one of the greatest memoirs of the Stalin years, Nadezhda Mandelstam wrote, “We have to get over our loss of memory.” Beginning with Gorbachev’s glasnost, and especially after the fall of communism, . . . . Continue Reading »
The Five Quintets by micheal o’siadhail baylor, 381 pages, $34.95 Sartre famously wrote that “hell is other people,” but for the poet Micheal O’Siadhail, hell is a highly specific group of other people. Among the damned are Franz Kafka, Karl Marx, and—you guessed it—a certain . . . . Continue Reading »
This Present Darkness by frank e. peretti crossway, 375 pages, $14.99 As a teenager, I was convinced that a spirit of false prophecy had attached itself to my neck. This spirit’s name—according to one of our youth group leaders—was Python, after the Pythia, or Oracle of Delphi. I did . . . . Continue Reading »