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The subtitle of Scot McKnight‘s book—“a gospel of peace in the midst of empire”—begs the question: Can there be a gospel of peace in the face of the violence, repression, and kleptocracy that empire not only authorizes but requires?
Ann Kjellberg
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Isolation is a terrible punishment, we all know. Circumstances when people have been hidden away include, at the extreme end, being dropped down a well…
Ann Kjellberg
Jul 7
While cats are serious business in children’s literature, “serious” literature hasn’t had much truck with them. A whole other order of phenomenon is Cz…
Ann Kjellberg
Jul 3 1
In the years since “Ready to Die” by Notorious B.I.G. first appeared, Biggie’s old neighborhood has been gentrified, hip-hop has been embraced by a mai…
Ann Kjellberg
Jun 30 2
Christopher Benfey on Mark Doty’s new memoir of reading Walt Whitman: How mystical experience and a passionate embrace of gay sex contributed to his ex…
Ann Kjellberg
Jun 25 3
The patron saint of my kitchen is Ziryab (789-857). Ziryab is said to have been a freed slave. He grew to maturity in Baghdad, studying music at the co…
Ann Kjellberg
Jun 11
The literature of witness: Is its job to render redemptive themes, or convey the naked horror of experience?
Ann Kjellberg
Jun 8
That nature recovers best when people fuss with it least is at the heart of Isabella Tree's splendidly written and unsentimentally inspiring book
Ann Kjellberg
Jun 3
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