![]() In her Pulitzer-winning 2005 novel Gilead, her character Reverend John Ames works out a limited number of themes-grace, forgiveness, fatherhood-with a slowness that reflects the 1950s small-town Iowa that surrounds him. Much of what makes Robinson’s nonfiction a challenge to digest can be understood in terms of its profound stylistic difference from her fiction. It is that same range and eloquence that makes When I Was a Child I Read Books move sporadically between being deeply insightful and irrefutably maddening, sometimes on the very same page. Reading Robinson feels like sitting down for a conversation with one’s most widely read and psychologically insightful friend, a person whose wit is surpassed only by the lucidity of her language. ![]() Robinson’s nonfiction guides readers through fields as disparate as cosmology, evolutionary psychology, economics and modern biblical criticism-all the while identifying the theological thread that holds them together. To those who fear that Christian cultural engagement is in a state of intellectual poverty, I suggest looking to the work of Marilynne Robinson for reason to hope. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She introduces deathcare innovators researching body composting and green burial, and examines how varied traditions, from Mexico's Días de los Muertos to Zoroastrian sky burial help us see our own death customs in a new light. Doughty vividly describes decomposed bodies and investigates the world's funerary history. In La Paz, she meets Bolivian natitas (cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls), and in Tokyo she encounters the Japanese kotsuage ceremony, in which relatives use chopsticks to pluck their loved-ones' bones from cremation ashes. In rural Indonesia, she watches a man clean and dress his grandfather's mummified body, which has resided in the family home for two years. Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was definitely starting to feel the covetousness this past weekend when it seemed like everyone and their brother got an ARC of this one. Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Maybe she's exactly what they need right now. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war- and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. ![]() The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don't fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. As long as she doesn't hurt anyone else, no one really cares. No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal. The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. ![]() Juliette hasn't touched anyone in exactly 264 days. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I had a very clear idea of what I wanted the exhibition to include. The exhibition idea stemmed from our acquisition of Artemisia's Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria in July 2018, which means I only had about 18 months to put the show together. Letizia Treves: I suppose there were two main challenges – the first, was the relatively short timeframe I had to work with and the other was securing the key loans which I felt were essential. Lydia Figes, Art UK: What were the initial challenges when putting together this exhibition? Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of AlexandriaĪrtemisia Gentileschi (1593–1654 or after) The National Gallery, London ![]() ![]() Glassco (3) Adrian King-Edwards (1) Aimé van Rod (1) Al Purdy (1) Andrew Draskóy (1) Andrew Lesk (1) Anne Chudobiak (2) Aubrey Beardsley (3) Aviva Layton (1) Beatrice Glassco (2) Bill Arnold (1) Bizarre (1) Blighty (2) Booktryst (1) Brazenhead (1) Brian Brett (1) Brome Lake Books (3) Bruce Whiteman (2) Bryan Sentes (1) Byron's Goose (1) Canadian Bookshelf (1) Canadian Encyclopedia (1) Canadian Literature (1) Canadian Notes and Queries (2) Carmine Starnino (8) Charles Foran (2) Chet Greason (1) Choice (1) Complete Poems of Saint-Denys-Garneau (2) Concordia (1) Contes en crinoline (1) Cormorant (1) Daniel Francis (1) David Glassco (1) Dayang Muda of Sarawak (1) Desmond Morton (1) Earth and High Heaven (1) Edward Rawlings (3) Edwin Lanham (1) Eli Mandel (1) Elizabeth Wilson (1) Elma Glassco (6) English Poetry in Quebec (1) Euterpe's Honeymoon (1) Events (19) Extract from an Autobiography (3) F.R. Postcards of Traymore Cafeteria, MontrealĪ.J.M.Selwyn House School Gym Class, Montreal, 1917.Henry Miller's Tropic of Capricorn (n.d.).John Glassco and Graeme Taylor, Nice, 1929. ![]() ![]() Robert McAlmon's The Nightinghouls of Paris.Ce soir a Montréal - Tonight in Montreal.Memoirs of Montparnasse - Annotated by Glassco.'Complete set of Saikaku prints for Ralph'.Graeme Taylor's Grave, Mount Royal Cemetery. ![]() |