In Commentary, Terry Teachout writes that for many years, Flannery O'Connor's readers and critics failed to grasp the meaning of…
Re-evaluating Flannery O’Connor
literature
Lapham’s “Religion”
In his preamble to the new "Religion" issue of Lapham's Quarterly, Lewis Lapham describes the downfall of traditional religion as…
Schmitt on Shakespeare
At TELOSscope , Nicole Burgoyne interviews David Pan, translator of the first English edition of Carl Schmitt's 1956 foray into…
Was prophecy a day job for poets?
In The New Republic, Adam Kirsch reviews David Rosenberg's A Literary Bible, which makes an arresting claim about Hebrew biblical…
Excerpts from 36 Arguments for God: a work of fiction
At Edge, John Brockman introduces excerpts from Rebecca Newberger Goldstein's forthcoming 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: a work…
Secular brooding, literary brooding
What's so bad about heteronomous thinking, anyway? Stathis Gourgouris has used the term in several posts here on The Immanent…
A story to tell
Stories, at least good stories, are full of details that demand time and space in a narrative. They are worth…