In “Amber Spyglass,” Pullman rebels against orthodox versions of the afterlife and creates his own.
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Philip Pullman’s Unorthodox Afterlife
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Homer, Virgil, Dante and the Afterlife
Literary afterlives, such as we encounter in Homer, Virgil, and Dante, are as much about this world as the next.
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Halloween Horrors in the Aeneid
For Halloween, check out the monsters who greet Aeneas on his way to the underworld.
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St. Francis: Made for Beauty
St. Francis radically changed the way we see beauty and ourselves in relationship to beauty.
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Man of Property and the Dobbs Decision
In Galsworthy’s “Man of Property,” Soames sees his wife as property. With its Dobbs decision, meanwhile, the Supreme Court sees women similarly.
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Do Not Stand by My Grave and Weep
As Slovenes this past week visited the graves of those who have passed on, I thought of Frye’s poem “Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep.”
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Reaching Out to the Poor and Oppressed
Martha Serpas calls out America on how it treats the poor and unfortunate.
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When Reading Dante Was a Radical Act
In Matthew Pearl’s 19th century murder mystery “Dante Club,” translating Dante is dangerous business.
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Frozen in the Ice of Indifference
The difference between politicians who care and those who don’t is the difference between Dante’s Purgatory and Inferno.
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