January 2019
Now we do
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On politics and religion in Brazil after their recent presidential election.
Topic: “Religion”
November 2018
Cryptocriticism
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On the religious background of the Bard.
April 2018
Conversions & verses
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On Michael D. Hurley’s Faith in Poetry: Verse Style as a Mode of Religious Belief.
October 2017
Protestantism & its discontents
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On “Protestants: The Faith that Made the Modern World” by Alec Ryrie.
June 2017
Wok star
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On the cult of the Kibbo Kift.
June 2017
Hither & yon
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On Commotion of the Birds by John Ashbery, Falling Awake by Alice Oswald, Album for the Young (and Old) by Vera Pavlova, Lacunae: 100 Imagined Ancient Love Poems by Daniel Nadler & Fast by Jorie Graham.
May 2017
Dialogues in Scrutopia
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On the recent works & widespread influence of Sir Roger Scruton.
April 2016
Shakespeare’s Good Books
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On Shakespeare’s religious sources.
March 2016
Sarcastic & iconoclastic
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December 2009
Devotion, Italian style
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On “reading” early Italian painting.