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A global pandemic, a traveling Shakespeare troupe, a comic book—and a best-of-2014 pick for so many readers. I was afraid this post-apocalyptic novel would be depressing (or terrifying) but it's neither. It IS a pageturner: I read it in two days.

“I’m sick of Flannery O’Connor.” That was the opening sentence of a recent piece by Randy Boyagoda for First Things magazine. It’s what journalists call “a strong lede,” especially when you consider that First Things readers are likely to revere the memory of Miss O’Connor. (He’s also tired of several other major writers from Hopkins…

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Martin Amis, in his New Yorker review of Don DeLillo’s “The Angel Esmeralda,” argued that any time we claim to love a writer’s work, we are always …

Jared Kennedy reviews ‘Reading Genesis’ by Marilynne Robinson (FSG, 2024).

Marilynne Robinson on Expanding the World of Gilead

Preacher John Ames faces the fiercest test of his faith in the town we first encountered in 2004, writes Sophie Elmhirst

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