A Mary Oliver poem for Earth Day: “Ghosts” looks back at the large buffalo herds and forward to what it will take to restore nature.
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Tag Archives: Louise Erdrich
Earth Day: Mary Oliver Notices
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Erdrich, Snakes, and the Transfiguration
Erdrich’s “Sermon to the Snakes” in “Last Report of the Miracles at Little No Horse” probes the question of whether God’s love drives the universe.
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Post of the Year: Plagues in Literature
A survey of literature through the ages that has dealt with plagues.
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A Literary Survey of What Plagues Mean
A survey of how literary authors have grappled for meaning in times of pestilence bolsters our own search. I look at Sophocles, Virgil, Defoe, Porter, Camus, King, Mandel, Atwood, and Erdrich.
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Empty but for Pain: How Faith Is Perverted
During Inauguration activities on Friday, we saw two dramatically different versions of Christianity, with one pastor finding scriptural backing for Donald Trump’s wall and another presenting him with the Sermon on the Mount.
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Erdrich Charts a Third Way for Fantasy
L. Frank Baum and Edgar Allen Poe represent the light and the dark strains of American fantasy. But Louise Erdrich introduces a third strain, Native American, to the conversation.
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Science Speaks: Lit Makes You Smart
The science is in: great literature makes you emotionally smarter.