You Can’t Choose Your Friends
In a culture obsessed with choice and individual responsibility, the persistent realness of friendship denies our persistent attempts to define and contain it.
Why Priests? A Failed Tradition
Trying to elevate the vocation of prophet, Garry Willis gives priests short shrift.
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.
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.
