Mark Greif and Mrs. Turpin
I’ve written a review of Mark Greif’s The Age of the Crisis of Man for Books and Culture, but it won’t appear for...
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designing the Word
Bibliotecha is a remarkably successful new Kickstarter project for designing and printing a Bible made to be read, in...
in which I try and fail to make sense of an essay on the future of the Bible
Thomas Larson writes, Here at the end of the four-century reign of books in our culture, which is to say in the digital...
Oscar Wilde and the Passion
I greatly enjoyed and learned from Alex Ross’s lovely essay on Oscar Wilde in the New Yorker, but I want to pause...
a people of one book
I’ve recently been reading and enjoying my friend Tim Larsen’s A People of One Book: the Bible and the Victorians....
Fujimura’s Gospels
I just can’t express how moved and fascinated I have been by Makoto Fujimura’s Four Holy Gospels. It is a...
in the reign of King Josiah
For people interested in the relations between orality and literacy, there’s a fascinating passage in the Biblical...