B. D. McClay

In 1943, mourning the end of a short-lived love affair that would leave her (even months later) sitting “desolately by the fire shivering uncontrollably with an aching head and longing to be cherished,” Barbara Pym recorded walking by a pre-Raphaelite tomb and brooding a little. At this point . . . . Continue Reading »

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On the (Very Smelly) Trail of the Skunk Takeover
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Wonder and the Ends of Inquiry
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Israel at War with Hamas and Itself
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Despite Dementia, a Life of Art Continues to Thrive
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The Physicality of Prayer
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Colleges Want Students with Character, But Can’t Measure It
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Alice in Borderland
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The News is Born
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Divine Reverie: Revelation, Dream Interpretation, and Teeth in Antiquity
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Fantasy and the Buffered Self
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The State of the American Dog
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And Now: The Criminalization of Parenthood
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The Culture Warrior in Winter
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Cool Istanbul
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God Lives on Lemon Street
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Virginia Woolf’s Idea of Privacy
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In Defense of Fanny Price
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The Tea Party’s New Front in the American Culture Wars: Literature
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Vatican Says There Will Be No “Two Popes Final” for the World Cup
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Describing a Visual World Without Vision
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The Mortality of Paper
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The Race to Stop Africa’s Elephant Poachers
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How Evangelical Christians Do Money: On Tithing
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Holy Relics: A Brand Parody T-Shirt
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Know Nothing
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Beyond Belief: A Journey to Antarctica
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Better to Marry Than to Burn
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Farming the Apocalypse
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For Taylor Swift, the Future of Music Is a Love Story
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The Worst Tree in the World
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Enon Chapel: London’s Victorian Golgotha
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Kant Confusion
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Why We Still Need “The Feminine Mystique”
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