
“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"
“The Secularist's Dogma”
“A Tale of Love and Nostalgia across Religious Divides in the Caucasus”
“Taking the Future on Faith”
“Trading Faith for Wonder: On Judaism's Literary Legacy”
“Why the Bible has No Place in Politics, or Vice Versa”
“The Good, The Bad, and The Unsettling: On the “New American Haggadah””
“A Place at the Table: On the “New American Haggadah””
“Davening in Newton: On the “New American Haggadah””
“The Dispossessed: Brian Levack’s “The Devil Within””
“Scientology: The Mystery Sandwich”
“John Gray’s Godless Mysticism: On "The Silence of Animals"”
“Rewiring Literary Criticism”

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