Marilynne Robinson

Nov 26, 2024 | orlandosentinel.com | Marilynne Robinson

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 26, the 331st day of 2024. There are 35 days left in the year. Today in history:On Nov. 26, 2008, teams of heavily armed militants from the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant and a crowded train station in Mumbai, India, leaving at least 175 people dead (including nine of the attackers) in a rampage spanning four days.

Nov 21, 2024 | heidelblog.net | Marilynne Robinson |Zach Keele

Within the bookstore of biblical studies, an alarming variety of works rest upon the shelves. Erudite tomes of philology and archeology, collections of sermons, thematic monographs, devotional series, and popular commentaries intermingle like diverse species in a rainforest. Arguably, each type has its place and purpose; yet, if you spend much time in their pages, a common ailment weakens many of them.

Nov 3, 2024 | theguardian.com | Colum McCann |Margo Jefferson |Richard Ford |Marilynne Robinson

Colum McCannIrish-born novelist and nonfiction author whose books include Let the Great World Spin and Apeirogon. McCann has lived in New York for three decadesAlmost 40 years ago, I was as a young journalist travelling across the deep south of the United States. I found myself sitting outside a diner in Waycross, Georgia, jawing with some good ol’ boys. One of them was a perfect American cartoon. Baseball hat. Plaid shirt.

Oct 17, 2024 | nybooks.com | Marilynne Robinson

It is strange to imagine that you know a country. I assumed I knew this one, until 2016. Then we had an election, out of which emerged a victorious Donald J. Trump. Of course he has antecedents in our history, for example P.T. Barnum, the showman who is said to have accounted for his success with the dictum “There’s a sucker born every minute.” He toured fake primordial giants, recumbent figures carved in stone, modeled on a slightly earlier fraudulent giant, and throngs paid to be astonished.

Oct 3, 2024 | yalereview.org | Marilynne Robinson

Read together, these books seem almost collaborative, like an ideal conversation in which one of those present might propose a way of speaking–of how value exists, for example–and another might say, you are right, and yet we can turn the question again and see it differently. They speculate variously on the good life, in the moral and even the spiritual sense of the phrase.