Haunted Bodies: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
Alexandra Barylski on Molly McCully Brown’s The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded What sin warrants a blown brain, a lame body?
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Fiction & Poetry
Feeding that Infinite Abyss Within – By John David Penniman
John David Penniman on Alexandra Kleeman’s You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine “Am I really all the things that are outside
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Nightmares and Dreams – By Andrew Lanham
Andrew Lanham on Salman Rushdie’s Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights There’s a lot of talk about religion in Salman Rushdie’s new
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Houellebecq’s Wager – By Bruno Chaouat
Bruno Chaouat on Michel Houellebecq’s Soumission Recently, French intellectuals have become interested in the unbearable lightness of being oneself, in the paradoxical burden of individual
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A Broken Resurrection: Faith and the Future in Toni Morrison’s New Novel – By Andrew Lanham
Andrew Lanham on Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child Like fantastic prisms made of words, Toni Morrison’s novels each refract a singular history
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Tuvia Ruebner’s Poetry and Why Translation Matters – By Dara Barnat
Dara Barnat on Rachel Tzvia Back’s In the Illuminated Dark Being a victim, again and again a victim — what a job! Here and
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“To Celebrate the Best Parts of His Nature:” Fiction and the Discourse of Man – By Nick Ripatrazone
Nick Ripatrazone on Mark Greif’s The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973 William Faulkner began his 1950
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The Spilling of Women’s Blood – By Gabino Iglesias
Gabino Iglesias on Laura Ellen Joyce’s The Luminol Reels Luminol is a chemical commonly used to give lightsticks their characteristic glow. The compound also
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Incarnational Poetics and the New Theological Literary Studies – By Ryan McDermott
Ryan McDermott on Cristina Maria Cervone’s Poetics of the Incarnation: Middle English Writing and the Leap of Love I often have to explain to friends who
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The Morning After – By Samuel Thrope
Samuel Thrope on Porochista Khakpour’s The Last Illusion I was in New York on September 11th. The sound of sirens jolted me out
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