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What to Read When You’re Broke Down in Hell

  • Melissa Stephenson
  • August 31, 2018
A list of Melissa Stephenson's down-and-out favorites for when you have a case of the grays.
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Marilynne Robinson on Being an American

  • Charley Locke
  • September 11, 2015
When Christians abandon Christian standards of behavior in the defense of Christianity, when Americans abandon American standards of conduct in the name of America, they inflict harm that would not…
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Robinson Renewed

  • Jake Slovis
  • November 25, 2014
For The Millions, Alex Engebretson argues that despite the twenty-four year gap between the publication of Marilynne Robinson’s first and second novel, the author’s recurring themes and imagery present a “singular…
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Marilyn Robinson’s Glorious Bill Moyers Interview

  • Lyz Lenz
  • October 23, 2014
It is pretty great. Yes. It’s impossible to achieve things like justice if you don’t have enough compassionate imagination for any other human being to understand that they deserve justice.…
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Sound and the Fury 2.0

  • Lyz Lenz
  • October 9, 2014
Is Lila inspired by The Idiot and The Sounds and The Fury? I’m not sure whether Lila is a stand-in for Christ, but it is clear to me that Robinson…
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