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Recommended reading: Marilynne Robinson

At Books and Culture, Thomas Gardner reviews the long-awaited novel by Marilynne Robinson … Gilead. Gardner writes: Marilynne Robinson’s second novel, Gilead, is a quiet, deeply moving celebration of...

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"Gilead" wins the National Book Award!

I mentioned the new book by Marilynne Robinson a while back, and now it’s made even bigger headlines. Right now, I’m reading the new book by Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day), Never Let Me Go....

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Christianity Today Book Awards 2005

The Christianity Today Book Awards 2005 heap even more praise upon Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead. And they also honor Unveiling, a novel by a new friend of mine, Suzanne Wolfe, who I met at the recent...

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Marilynne Robinson reviews Annie Dillard’s latest

Marilynne Robinson, author of Gilead and Housekeeping, reviews The Maytrees: Annie Dillard’s books are like comets, like celestial events that remind us that the reality we inhabit is itself a...

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Christianity Today’s Knockout Interview with Marilynne Robinson

This is the most thrilling stuff I’ve read at Christianity Today in a while. Great interview. I wish they’d made this a cover story. It’s one of the most important conversations this magazine could...

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A Couple of Notes on Richard Dawkins

Today, I noticed Scott Derrickson posting this link on Twitter. It’s a link to an article by Marilynne Robinson, author of Gilead, contesting the claims of Richard Dawkins. So, of course, I had to drop...

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Marilynne Robinson on Faith, Science, and the Truth

There is no book arriving in 2012 that I am more excited to read than Marilynne Robinson’s When I Was a Child I Read Books. This week, The Chronicle of Higher Education published an excerpt… I keep...

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In Which I Reveal Who I’m Voting For

In the new issue of Image, there's an interview with Marilynne Robinson that is so inspiring, I keep slowing down and reading small pieces of it again and again. Here's an excerpt.

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Looking Elsewhere: Starring… American Sniper, The Imitation Game, Sundance,...

I'll conclude with a few words about the American Sniper hubbub. But first, here are some of the things that caught my attention on the Wild Wild Web in the last couple of weeks...

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