Archive


More than thirty years of First Things articles at your fingertips.

Articles

Filter

Articles

Sleeping Through Life

Trevor Cribben Merrill

Two chapters into Matthew Gasda’s The Sleepers, Mariko, a waitress and stage actress, gets into a spat with her boyfriend, Dan, a Marxist English professor and would-be public intellectual...

A Cloak of Fiction

Trevor Cribben Merrill

Either/Orby elif batumanpenguin, 368 pages, $27 Flannery O’Connor argued that the separation of matter and spirit, nature and grace, was fatal to the art of fiction, which requires an...