Category: Skepticism
The Mental Exercises of a Possibilian: “Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives” by David Eagleman (Canongate/Pantheon)
“Judas” by Amos Oz: Curiosity, Desire, Betrayal, Loyalty…
“The Delight of Being Ordinary” by Roland Merullo: A Road Trip with the Pope And the Dalai Lama
A Lush Victorian Tale of Science, Religion, Legend and Love: “The Essex Serpent” by Sarah Perry
“The Givenness of Things”: Marilynne Robinson’s Wide-Ranging Collection of Essays
A Slow Lava Flow of Narrative: László Krasznahorkai’s “The Melancholy of Resistance”
Helen Langdon on Why Caravaggio Speaks So Directly to the Modern World
On Art and Aesthetics 