Hannah Pittard, seated next to a fresh stack of novels with a glowing quote from Time magazine on the cover of each, was signing copies when a familiar face stepped to the front of the line. Kevin Brockmeier, himself a nationally acclaimed writer, was ho

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HERE, as summarized by Ari Schulman. The theologian-novelist gave a polemical response to to MacIntyre at a recent conference. And Ari not only offers a tight and astute summary of her remarks. If you scroll down, you can also find his summary of AFTER V

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IN HER NOVELS AND in her nonfiction essays, Marilynne Robinson's questions are always roughly the same: Who are we, and where did we come from? The first is a matter of metaphysics, the second of history. At least since the publication of her first colle