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An Unreliable Alchemy
IRINA DUMITRESCU | One day the world shifted, and no one noticed but me...
Nov 10, 2017
Figuring the Unknown
CLAY GREENE | In 1959, a British novelist and chemist named Charles Percy Snow delivered a memorable lecture at the University of...
Sep 13, 2017
Landscapes of the Soul
MARGARET S. MAUK | Victorian culture—permeated with spiritualists and séances—concerned itself with death on a personal and intimate...
Aug 16, 2017
Haunted Bodies: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
ALEXANDRA BARYLSKI | Brown’s dirt is the red Virginia clay, which years ago stained everything in my life...
Jun 20, 2017
Prayers amidst Parodies and Empty Praisesongs
LUKE JOHNSON | I began reading Before the Door of God: An Anthology of Devotional Poetry in a hospital waiting room filled with fake-leather chairs that reclined too far...
Jan 27, 2014
Meaning and Mystery and Love
ALISSA WILKINSON | Andre Dubus III has made a career of exploring the lives of people on the margins...
Nov 20, 2013
Place, Community, Kindness — and the Occasional Rage
THOM SATTERLEE | In the mid-1960s, after completing a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the University of Kentucky and traveling across the country to study creative writing as a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford...
Nov 4, 2013
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