Transept IN/BREAK Artist Reflection: Why I write
[Editor’s Note: Reflecting on his creative process during the Covid pandemic, author Jonathan Selstad asks why we expend time and energy making art. Through…
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Lovecraft’s Narrow Universe
As anyone who did their English reading in high school knows, appreciably racist fiction is very common. Jews are greasy theatre owners in Oscar…
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Stories of Domestic Abuse
The recent BBC adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Booker-nominated novel, Normal People, was lauded for the skill with which it brought Rooney’s candid, compelling story…
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Transept IN/BREAK Artist Reflection: Dreams and Labours
EDITOR’S NOTE: Leading up to the IN/BREAK exhibition in March, Transpositions will be publishing a series of reflections written by artists who will be…
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‘Like a Child’: The Virtues of Childhood in The Idiot
In a novel tasked with depicting the ‘positively good man’, it is significant that the majority of characters who are characterized as ‘good’ in…
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From Communication to Communion: Dialogic Partnership in Dostoevsky’s The Idiot
Dostoevsky offers many interesting theological threads to follow in The Idiot, and, for me, amid all of its chaotic conversations I found a compelling…
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‘I Am the Sole Outcast’: Ippolit Among Dostoevsky’s Atheists
I. Henri de Lubac observes that ‘Dostoevsky’s books abound in atheists’. [1] The novelist explores the ‘psychology of unbelief’ by making many of his…
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