Strange Rites
Rather than a secular age, Burton presents our current culture as embracing a wide variety of niche spiritualities designed to meet our individual needs for purpose, meaning, and hope.
Solzhenitsyn and American Culture
Deavel and Wilson’s new collection of essays on Solzhenitsyn highlights the writer’s differences not only with the country that expelled him, but also the one that took him in.
What It Means to Be Human
Though more concerned with political persuasion and the present state of affairs than it is with philosophical proofs, Snead’s book nonetheless offers a valuable contribution to the discussion of American bioethics today.
The Fare Forward Interview with Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson is a novelist and essayist. She is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2005), the National Humanities Medal (2012), and the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction (2016). She taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop from 1991 until 2016. She has published collections of essays on topics ranging from nuclear pollution to American democracy to the human mind. Jack, her fifth novel and the fourth concerning the people of Gilead, Iowa, was published in September of this year. Robinson spoke to Fare Forward about evil, heroes, and the future of the American project.
Beau Travail
Claire Denis's 1999 film, recently re-released in the Criterion Collection, builds and maintains its tension perfectly until the final shot.
Nostalgia
Rightly understood, nostalgia is more than a delusion about the past--it is the hope for a home we have not yet know.
The Searcher
Tana French's new mystery explores a disappearance--and, along the way, takes a look at finding our way through our shifting moral landscape.
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.