This past August the New York Times ran an investigative report about Sioux Center, Iowa, a small town that serves as a refuge for members of the Dutch Reformed Church, a tiny subset of the American ...

At a time when health precautions impede our urges to load up the car and visit our favorite museums, theaters, and restaurants with friends and family, St. Louis in Watercolor: Living History in the ...

Marilynne Robinson is one of the great religious novelists, not only of our age, but any age. Reading her new novel Lila, one wonders how critics could worry that American fiction has lost its faith, ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. In Gilead, John Ames is a 70-year-old pastor writing an account of his life and the history of his ...

It has taken me a day or two to get around to reading Robert Long’s TAC essay on the writer Marilynne Robinson. If you haven’t seen it yet, rush right over. It’s about her liberal Christianity, and ...

On the day before Thanksgiving, we talk with Marilynne Robinson – one of America’s greatest authors, thinkers, moralists — about fear and hope in a hard, frightening time. President Barack Obama, ...

Marilynne Robinson is a dissident, though she may not sound like one. The 74-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and acclaimed essayist has made a peaceable career of rejecting commonly held ...

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Breaking up is hard to do, and I am not at all prepared to discard my deep love and admiration for novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson. Among her novels, I treasure Lila in particular for its ...

Read more of Bob Abernethy’s August 31, 2009 interview in Iowa with Marilynne Robinson. She is the author, most recently, of the novels Gilead and Home, and she a member of the faculty at the ...

A thought-provoking study of the limits of knowledge and a counterblast to the new atheism of Dawkins et al Regardless of one’s own beliefs (or lack thereof), the 17 essays in Pulitzer prize-winning ...