This careful analysis of the foundational text is full of telling details and keenly observed parallels The award-winning novelist and social critic Marilynne Robinson has turned the focus of her ...

Why you shouldn’t skip over the R-rated parts of Genesis. This is the second article in a short “Genesis January” series to help people explore the complexity of the Bible at the start of a new year.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Marilynne Robinson is admired in Britain by those who appreciate her sparsely but beautifully written novels ...

Considering how often the Bible is characterized as a great work of literature, it is rarely read like one. Few would suggest a piecemeal approach to Crime and Punishment, jumping from chapter to ...

Who doesn’t love Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead—or even more, her first novel, Housekeeping? Yet better than her fiction, for my tastes, are her brilliant essays, which reveal that she should be ranked ...

There was a hymn we used to sing when I was a child, one of those lusty, murderous chants characteristic of the Anglican Church in its high-Victorian pomp. Written in 1894, it vibrates with imperial ...