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September 2020

September 17, 2020

No, Flannery O’Connor Has Not Been Canceled

I think many of O’Connor’s fans can handle the vision of redemption that she presents...

March 2020

March 12, 2020

Reading Plague Novels In a Time of Pandemic

Still, King’s novel - as well as Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy, and novels dealing with historical...

February 2020

February 01, 2020

Yes, This Is Who We Are: The United States and Our History of Injustice

This is who we are. We came to this continent, stole it from those who...

January 2019

January 14, 2019

Maybe It’s Not the Book That’s the Problem. Maybe It’s You

When a person admits to being sexually aroused by that which is not intended to...

July 2018

July 04, 2018

I Won’t Be Trying To Say God Next Year: #MeToo and Catholic Writers – UPDATED

it’s clear that women writers have an uphill battle still, when it comes to being...

June 2018

June 11, 2018

The Western Canon, Incels, and a Problem with Pedagogy

How many professors at the kind of schools that emphasize the canon are willing to...

June 07, 2018

Flowers For Virginia: A Visit to Monk’s House

We’d spent the day in places haunted by ghosts, ghosts who comfort us, with their...

March 2018

March 24, 2018

Stories About Women Perpetuate the Myth of Incompleteless

There is no reason why we shouldn’t have stories about women doing exciting things with...

March 16, 2018

Consent is Necessary. It’s Also Ambiguous

Did Perry wave about a signed affidavit with “permission from feminists granted” on it? Did...

September 2017

September 16, 2017

Join us in the Revolution of Tenderness

I believe literature is by its very nature interdisciplinary, and creates a space in which...

July 2017

July 21, 2017

Women’s Literature: The Stories That Are Not Told

The radical idea that women are people too still hasn’t entirely caught on.

July 20, 2017

A Defense of Game of Thrones

Admitting that I am a fan of the hugest TV hit series of the moment...

July 06, 2017

When I Try to Say “God,” Strange Sounds Come Out

I had tried to make them overtly religious, failing to recognize that every one of...

March 2017

March 05, 2017

shocking material in fairy tales – or, nothing new under the sun

The old stories that come to us out of an older, folk mythos, have been...

May 2016

May 21, 2016

is it okay to put your enemies in a book? the strange moral discipline of fiction writing

Faulkner spoke of the conflict of the heart as the "only thing worth writing about,"...

April 2016

April 21, 2016

a reflection on the radical christian feminism of charlotte brontë, on the bicentennial of her birth

The term "feminist" was not invented yet, in Charlotte Brontë's day, but I will permit...