Tag: Marilynne Robinson
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The Ease of Criticism
Some remarks by Robert Minto on the simplicity of the disposition that lends itself to critical reading and writing.
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The Heft of a Novel
An agreement with Marilynne Robinson on the feeling that prompts the writing of a novel.
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Thinking About Thinking About Thinking
A consideration of the use of free indirect discourse in Marilynne Robinson’s Lila.
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The Wick Within the Flame
After recently re-reading Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead, Richard Crary found his appreciation of the novel undimmed a decade on from its first publication. “It is, in many ways, what used to be called ‘wisdom literature,’” he writes, “yet it is also a marvelous, and subtle, literary performance. And, it seems to me, a wholly appropriate literary response […]
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Two Trees, Through Their Own Eyes
The tree seemed to lengthen itself out as [the girl] went up, and to reach farther and farther upwards. It was like a great main-mast to the voyaging earth; it must truly have been amazed that morning through all its ponderous frame as it felt this determined spark of human spirit creeping and climbing from […]
Infinite Patience 