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Review: Sarah Ruden on Marilynne Robinson‘s Genesis
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Review: Sarah Ruden on Marilynne Robinson‘s Genesis

Mar 12, 2024
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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 …

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