‘Look at this tangle of thorns’: Lying with Lolita
byErik Eklund’s thought-provoking, engaging reflection on Nabokov’s controversial novel explains how Lolita reveals the “monstrosity of the self-conscious novel”, for the final article in our…
Literature
Generosity, Love, and Community: Why Christian Parents Should Let Their Children Read Front Desk
byKelly Norris argues that the “generosity” and “love” in Kelly Yang’s Front Desk make it an appropriate novel for children to read as part…
‘What is Bad Art Good For?’
byAnnie Konzelman uses a controversial chapter from Dostoevsky’s Demons to raise important, thought-provoking questions about the value of “bad” art, in the next article…
The Audacious Prayer of The Handmaid’s Tale
byJames Smoker argues that The Handmaid’s Tale is not “detrimental to Christian values” but an important challenge to corrupted religious power, in the next installment…
Banning Anne: Why the Soviets were Afraid of Anne of Green Gables
byLaunching our exciting new series on banned books, Ewan Bowlby explains why Anne of Green Gables was banned in Soviet controlled Poland. If you…
Eyes to Listen, Ears to See: Re-ordering our Sense of Beauty
byGiulia Privitelli explores our “restless search” for beauty through Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince and the tragedy of Narcissus and Echo. ‘What a queer planet!’ he…
Post-Secular Curiosity in Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You?
byNora Kirkham considers how Sally Rooney’s novel Beautiful World, Where Are You? encourages readers to seek out beauty and closer, richer relationships during times of…