Death on April Fool’s Day
Some thoughts on “Confessions of an Opium-Eater,” death, and living history.
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Looking out onto the world
If Father and Son (1907) is a “document,” a “record” of fact, and a “diagnosis” of a cultural moment—which is how the poet and critic Edmund Gosse (1849-1928) puts it at the outset of his auto/biography—that is not because of its pretensions to scientific objectivity, its implied invocation of a naturalist’s standard of normalcy, or
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A superior understanding of Canada
On putting Stephen Harper in context.
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Predictably conventional
On consensus centrism and political commentary in Canada.
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What is this that you have done?
On Genesis, anthropology, and ideology.
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The passion and the prose
Reading Charles Taylor and E. M. Forster together.
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A sudden disintegration
A review of “The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America” (2017), by Frances Fitzgerald.
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Life’s narrative wholeness
On life, stories, and “The Republic of Love.”
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Seeing “First Reformed”
A review of “First Reformed,” directed by Paul Schrader.
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Unaffected by history?
A review of “Why Study the Past?” by Rowan Williams.
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The history that lies between
A review of “The Moral Vision of the New Testament” by Richard Hays.
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