Monthly Archives: October 2012

Does God Hear Us When We Cry Out?

By Robin Bates | Published: October 14, 2012

The Book of Job, Herbert’s “Denial” and an internet poem about Job’s Wife capture the language of suffering.

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Armstrong’s Heart of Darkness

By Robin Bates | Published: October 13, 2012

One our ideal, Lance Armstrong has proved to be more like Kurtz in “Heart of Darkness.”

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Joe Biden Debates Bounderby

By Robin Bates | Published: October 12, 2012

In last night’s, Joe Biden found himself up against a modern-day version of Dickens’ Bounderby from “Hard Times.”

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Mitt as a Jane Austen Villain

By Robin Bates | Published: October 11, 2012

Like Henry Crawford in “Mansfield Park,” Mitt Romney is inconstant and will say anything.

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Doc, Prescribe Me a Poem

By Robin Bates | Published: October 10, 2012

Literature as therapy, Greek tragedy as soap opera: assorted articles about lit and life.

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Is Obama in the Grip of Grendel’s Mother?

By Robin Bates | Published: October 9, 2012

Is Obama in a funk over his responsibilities as a war president? If so, “Beowulf” has answers.

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Mitt Weaves a Tangled Web of Deceit

By Robin Bates | Published: October 8, 2012

Mitt Romney’s “tangled web” entraps Obama and recalls Sir Walter Scott.

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Becoming Intimate with God

By Robin Bates | Published: October 7, 2012

As George Herbert and Fiona Sampson make clear, partaking in the eucharist feat is our way of becoming intimate with God.

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Thinking beyond the Baseball Box

By Robin Bates | Published: October 6, 2012

The film “Moneyball” helps explain this year’s extraordinary story of the Oakland Athletics.

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