Jack
Robinson's newest novel allows her readers neither to flinch from Jack Boughton's real fall from grace nor to condemn him to suffer what he deserves.
The Life of Perished Things
By Joshua Rio-Ross. Reflections on Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping forty years after its release.
The Good Life is Slow
By Alex Engebretson. The slow pace and deep delight in the beauty of the world that characterize Marilynne Robinson's Gilead novels can counter-catechize us to the demands of our liberal, capitalist society. The Church should take advantage of that.
Taking Humanity Seriously
Drawing on Robinson's essay collection The Death of Adam, Jennifer Frey looks at why the search for subjective happiness is leaving so many of us lonely, anxious, and unfulfilled.
van Heemskerck II, Egbert; A Quaker Meeting with a Self Portrait; National Trust, Saltram; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/a-quaker-meeting-with-a-self-portrait-101516
Democracy in America
By Rebecca Lewis. Marilynne Robinson has a high regard for American democracy--but she urges us to remember that it requires great humility and diligent tending in order to flourish.