Literature
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Faith
The Flannery O’Connor Novel That Might Have Been
Flannery O’Connor was an inveterate rewriter, working, reworking, and deleting episodes from her stories and novels. Her archives, collected at…
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Marilynne Robinson Reads Genesis Without Anxiety
In her latest book, Reading Genesis, Marilynne Robinson insists that modern readers have largely misunderstood the literary and theological significance…
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‘Wildcat’ Is as Unsettling as Flannery O’Connor Would Have Wanted
Why not write something that “a lot, a lot, of people like?” Regina O’Connor asks her daughter, the writer Flannery…
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Biblical Literacy in a Postliterate Age
Christians are readers. We are “people of the book.” We own personal Bibles, translated into our mother tongues, and read…
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The Church Loses When Our Arts Communities Die
I can remember the moment small literary magazines entered my life and established a subtle but dominating influence. I was…
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Metaphors Have a Power That’s More Than Metaphorical
I’m afraid these men would only slow me down,” says a cocksure Benedict Cumberbatch in the role of the godfather…
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