contexts, conditions, and intersecting monologues
If there is a line that I’ve quoted more than any other over the years, it is this one from Rebecca West: “There is...
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back in the saddle
Hi. I’m back. Not sure how much I’ll be posting, but I have a great many ideas that I want to try out, so please...
a great silence cometh
We’re going to have radio silence here at Text Patterns for a while — I’m coming to the end of a year of research...
Text Patterns is back from the dead!
I’m back and probably not any better than ever! This post is a bit of a catch-all catch-up before I write a longer...
thinking about thinking
As I hope my last post illustrates, in general I’m less interested in staking out positions on the issues of the day...
work in progress
Folks, as some of you know, I’ve been working for some time on a book about Christian intellectuals in the second...
my big fat intellectual project
If there is any one general topic that has preoccupied me in the last decade, it’s … well, it’s hard to put...
Fantasy and the Buffered Self
That’s the title of my New Atlantis essay, now available in full online. Please check it out, and if you’d...
a bit of review
Well, this has been quite a busy year for me, especially given my move from the suburbs of Chicago, where I lived for...
on The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography
My “biography” of the Book of Common Prayer is now available and I hope some of you will buy it. It was a great...