Review: Sarah Ruden on Marilynne Robinson‘s Genesis

In Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, the monstrous yet pitiful Miss Kilman is a convert to the Church of England. Notwithstanding her restless intelligence, she has no chance to engage with Christian ideas, and for lack of anything better clutches at a cleric’s advice that her complicated frustrations are merely “the flesh.” The novelist Barbara Pym made …