Ed Simon is a staff writer at The Millions, and an editor at Berfrois. He is a frequent contributor at several different sites including The Atlantic, The Paris Review Daily, Aeon, Jacobin, the Washington Post, Religion Dispatches, Killing the Buddha, Salon, Berfrois, The Public Domain Review, Atlas Obscura, JSTOR Daily, and Newsweek. His collection America and Other Fictions: On Radical Faith and Post-Religion was released in 2018. He holds a PhD in English from Lehigh University and an MA in Literary and Cultural Studies from Carnegie Mellon University.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
The Puritans Are Alright
Do Puritans get a bad rap? Ed Simon reviews Michael P. Winship's "Hot Protestants."...
What Was Christendom?
Ed Simon explores "Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World," the recently published book from Tom Holland....
Burying Nobodaddy: What Is “God” Even Supposed to Mean?
Ed Simon looks at Philip C. Almond’s “God: A New Biography.”...
Condemned to Salvation: Considering Universalism with David Bentley Hart
On "That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation" by David Bentley Hart....
The Atheist Illusion
Ed Simon parses “Seven Types of Atheism” by John Gray....
Dismal Shores of Acheron: Touring Hell with Penguin Classics
"Finding language to describe the indescribable is the paradox of hell." Ed Simon reviews "The Penguin Book of Hell."...
Whispers in the Bare Ruined Choir: Meghan O’Gieblyn’s Crisis of Faith
Meghan O'Gieblyn's "Interior States" is an exemple of the kind of commentary that uses religious vocabulary to describe our current moment....
The Mexican Phoenix Rises: On “Sor Juana: Or, the Persistence of Pop”
Ed Simon considers “Sor Juana: Or, the Persistence of Pop” by Ilan Stavans....
Classic Rock’s Götterdämmerung
Ed Simon dances with Steven Hyden’s “Twilight of the Gods.”...
Groping Towards Each Other in a Common Mist
In his new translation, David Bentley Hart presents the New Testament as a choir, rather than the work of a soloist....
