After mass shooting at Brown University and in Sidney, Australia, we turn once again to Beowulf, especially its depiction of dragon depression.
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After Sydney, Dragon Depression
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Church Music, Sweetest of Sweets
In a Malcolm Guite lecture, the Anglican poet and priest draws on Donne and Herbert to imagine us tuning our instruments for entry into the heavenly choir.
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Early Scenes from a Marriage
My memoir continued, this time looking at my relationship with Julia during our grad school years in Atlanta.
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How Sociopaths Like DJT Escape Justice
Brundage’s magnificent crime novel “All Things Cease to Appear” frustrates our longing for accountability—as does DJT.
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Historical Fiction Is about the Present
Two recent historical novels, about Irish Boston and Bleeding Kansas, capture today’s tumult and they look backward.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Bleeding Kansas, Civil War, Dennis Lehane, forced busing, integration, racism, Small Mercies, Surrection, Will Martin Comments closed
The Bus Boycott’s Invisible Actors
Rita Dove’s “Claudette Colvin Goes to Work” honors those anonymous actors in significant historical change.
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Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
“Christ the Apple Tree,” an 18th century poem turned into Christmas carol, may have pagan origins.
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