Why George MacDonald Matters
Timothy Larsen on the Victorian writer Once upon a time, when young princesses were still plentiful, there nevertheless was a scarcity of children’s
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Marilynne Robinson’s Everyday Saints
Abram Van Engen on Marilynne Robinson In her 2004 Pulitzer-Prize winning novel Gilead, Marilynne Robinson includes an odd scene. The narrator, an old,
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Inaugural Poet? An Open Letter to President-elect Joe Biden
Dear President-elect Joe Biden, You quoted Seamus Heaney, W. B. Yeats and Langston Hughes in your speeches, so we feel certain that you’re
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Mushaira: Islam, Poetry, and South Asia
Abdul Manan Bhat on Ali Khan Mahmudabad Poetry gatherings have a magic of nearness, an immediacy and intimacy of sorts. The intimacy between
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James Wood and The Visionless Age
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How The Working Class Became Children: The Politics of Kindness in A Victorian Novel
Karen Swallow Prior on Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty March 30 marks the 200th birthday of Anna Sewell, whose only published work, Black Beauty,
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Does Law Disdain Literature?
Andrew Kau on The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 In a 2014 interview with The Harvard Gazette Stephen Greenblatt recounted his
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First Impressions # 94: Claire Chambers on Britain Through Muslim Literary Representations
What does Britain look like from the perspective of Muslims across the eighteenth century until today? Kristian Petersen talks with Claire Chambers, Lecturer
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First Impressions #91: Josef Sorett on A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics
Most of the major African American literary and cultural movements of the twentieth century have been understood and interpreted as secular. In reality, religion
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There Is No End – by Ana Schwartz
Ana Schwartz responds to Ed Simon’s Apocalypse is the Mother of Beauty Wallace Stevens grants us that “we die for good.” He and
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