God is a whale?
Cultivating our imaginations
The former editor of Books and Culture, John Wilson is a friend as much as a mentor, so when he asked me to respond to a recent article about the godlessness of American fiction, I didn’t want to say no.
In “Has the American Novel Abandoned God?” Rev. Fergus Butler-Gallie claims that from Moby Dick to Franzen…
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