Herman Melville
Malicious Agencies and Intangible Malignities in Moby Dick
A sublime passage from the 41st chapter of Moby Dick on Original Sin and scapegoating, […]
Another Week Ends: Secular Apocalypse, Holy Spirit Hits SEGA, Melville’s Bible, More A-Rod, Increasing Positivity, and Insights from The Canyons
1. First off, an excellent essay on Apocalypticism over at The Chronicle looks at the […]
Locked Doors and Charity Tickets in Herman Melville’s “Two Temples”
I’ve written on this not-very-talked-about collection of shorts from Melville, called The Happy Failure, before, […]
Upstream Ambition and the Universal Drift in Herman Melville’s “The Happy Failure”
The only short story most people are required to read in the Melville anthology is […]
Marilynne Robinson on the Great Problem of Christianity and the Failure of Russia and Mississippi
If in good conscience I could reproduce the entirety of Marilynne Robinson’s beautiful recent piece […]
Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Most Pernicious Piece of Literature in the American Canon
Homina homina homina. The Riff column in The NY Times Magazine has been such a […]
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