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February 2018

February 27, 2018

A Conversation with Gene Luen Yang: Part 2

Gene Luen Yang is the MacArthur genius grant–winning author of graphic novels including Boxers and...

November 2017

November 29, 2017

The Optics of Illusion

Ross told the kids to stare at the splotchy red and blue picture and wait....

November 21, 2017

The Night I Read Flannery O’Connor’s College Journal

I am. This is not pure conceit. My tea (Irish Breakfast, decaf, as it’s nearly...

September 2017

September 20, 2017

From Sophocles to Twin Peaks: What Killed Laura Palmer?

This post originally appeared at Good Letters on June 1, 2012. One of the toughest...

January 2016

January 04, 2016

A Metaphorical God, Part 1

The following is adapted from the preface to The Operation of Grace: Further Essays on...

August 2015

August 03, 2015

Original Sin and the Warp Effect

One of the great writers—to my recollection, Flannery O’Connor—said something to the effect that everything...

June 2015

June 04, 2015

A Place Where We Can Talk

By Brian Volck "Somewhere is better than anywhere." —Flannery O'Connor In my sophomore year of college,...

April 2015

April 28, 2015

Death Comes for the Deconstructionist: An Interview with Daniel Taylor

By Caitlin Mackenzie Daniel Taylor’s recent novel, Death Comes for the Deconstructionist, is a postmodern “whodunit”...

February 2015

February 11, 2015

Hazel Motes Is Out of Time

TCM broadcast John Huston’s film version of Wise Blood yesterday, and I wound up watching...

December 2014

December 18, 2014

Thinking About Poverty

What better time than Advent to ponder what poverty means? After all, Christ became poor...

October 2013

October 23, 2013

Only God is an Atheist, Part 2

It was not out of sheer flattery that Thomas Merton compared Flannery O’Connor to Sophocles,...

October 22, 2013

Only God is an Atheist, Part 1

When she was twenty-one years old, far from home and as yet uncelebrated, Flannery O’Connor...

July 2013

July 15, 2013

What We Learn

As he is evacuated from a battle zone, Chris Taylor—Oliver Stone’s protagonist in Platoon—marches us...

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 01, 2012

From Sophocles to Twin Peaks: What Killed Laura Palmer?

One of the toughest and most important jobs I have as an English professor at...