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July 2017

July 05, 2017

The Mysteries of Revision

When a former MFA professor asked me to come to her class and speak on...

June 2017

June 21, 2017

A Conversation with Lauren Winner, Part 2

By Mary Kenagy Mitchell Continued from yesterday. This post originally appeared as a web-exclusive feature accompanying Image issue 84....

June 12, 2017

A Book Without a Spine

The picture you see to the left is of a bookshelf in a local Starbucks....

March 2017

March 23, 2017

Love Nailed to the Doorpost

The commandment to love is nailed to my doorpost. Ritualistically written on a little piece...

October 2016

October 19, 2016

Reading (in) Walden

What are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man? They are the only...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

Beauty Will Save the Seventh Grade

By Callie R. Feyen The school administrator wants to know when my students will experience...

September 29, 2015

Save the Economy: Read the Classics

I was reading Pope Francis's encyclical Laudato Si when I began an article called "What...

July 2015

July 06, 2015

The Bearable Weightiness of Being

By Amy Peterson I was restless this spring, edging manic. I think my kids noticed....

June 2014

June 26, 2014

These Frigates, These Chariots

Guest post by Kathleen Housley It is a sunny morning in early June. A sabbath...

August 2013

August 02, 2013

In Praise of the Printed Book, Part 2

By Warren Farha Guest Post Continued from yesterday. An increasing torrent of books and articles...

August 01, 2013

In Praise of the Printed Book, Part 1

By Warren Farha Guest Post Note: This post and the one following it have been...

June 2013

June 04, 2013

Booked: Reading My Way Back to Faith

I accidentally read my way back to church in graduate school. I hadn’t been any...

November 2012

November 29, 2012

Books for Holiday Giving

Kudos to the university presses that are publishing books of the soundest scholarship for the...

October 2012

October 19, 2012

The Unbearable Badness of Ayn Rand

My good friend Marcelo has decided to read Ayn Rand’s fiction, to “see what all...

June 2012

June 27, 2012

Writing on Empty

Last week, I finished the fifth revision of my fifth novel, and got notice from...