Transept IN/BREAK Artist Reflection: Why I write
by[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…
Literature
Lovecraft’s Narrow Universe
byAs anyone who did their English reading in high school knows, appreciably racist fiction is very common. Jews are greasy theatre owners in Oscar…
Stories of Domestic Abuse
byThe 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…
Transept IN/BREAK Artist Reflection: Dreams and Labours
byEDITOR’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…
‘Like a Child’: The Virtues of Childhood in The Idiot
byIn a novel tasked with depicting the ‘positively good man’, it is significant that the majority of characters who are characterized as ‘good’ in…
From Communication to Communion: Dialogic Partnership in Dostoevsky’s The Idiot
byDostoevsky offers many interesting theological threads to follow in The Idiot, and, for me, amid all of its chaotic conversations I found a compelling…
‘I Am the Sole Outcast’: Ippolit Among Dostoevsky’s Atheists
byI. Henri de Lubac observes that ‘Dostoevsky’s books abound in atheists’. [1] The novelist explores the ‘psychology of unbelief’ by making many of his…