MRBlog: “Please God don’t let them be Muslim”
By Alex Shams I hate that every time something awful happens, I read the news and want to be able to mourn and
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MRBlog: Ed Silver on Interstellar
Ed Silver: Will self-knowledge be sustained or is it destined to collapse under the weight of human selfishness? NB: See also Christopher B. Hays’s
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MRBlog: Christopher B. Hays on Interstellar
Christopher B. Hays: ‘Some People Call Me the Space Cowboy, Some Call Me the Gangster of Love’: Interstellar’s New, Ancient Theology of Salvation
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MRBlog: Joan Taylor responds to Jodi Magness
I very much appreciate the time Jodi Magness has put into reading and commenting on my book The Essenes, the Scrolls and the Dead
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MRBlog: It’s a regrettable death. But we must maintain order!
By David Lincicum Sir, here’s the officer who witnessed the death. Come in, come in. Nasty business, this. I understand you have
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MRBlog: On the Journey to White Shame – By Christopher Driscoll
The human relations I valued most were held cheap by the world I lived in. White lesbian Southern novelist and woman of letters
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MRBlog: Manga! Editor Jolyon Thomas on New Books in Religion
Here’s a MRB-double from New Books in Religion. The host of our Directions in the Study of Religion, Kristian Petersen, recently interviewed our
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A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion
Over at LARB, Peter Birkenhead writes on Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited: Early in the pages of his memoir, Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov confesses that
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DISPATCHES. An Interview with California Winemaker Sean Thackrey
By Charles Halton I recently travelled with my wife, Lori Halton, to Bolinas, California to talk with winemaker Sean Thackrey. Thackrey’s winemaking style is
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DISPATCHES. Notes on First Visiting Morocco: A Reverie of Fes, March 2008 – By Ted Scheinman
It was dusk and we came to one of those little Fellini crossroads in Old Fes, where five passageways meet and no one
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