"If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden." 

* Martyn Wendell Jones – Essay on Two New David Bentley Hart Books

Or So I Like to Think: The Great Talk of David Bentley Hart
An Essay on Two New Books by Martyn Wendell Jones
*** This essay first appeared in our Fall 2017 magazine issue.
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In Case You Missed it This Week... 

* Zadie Smith – Literary Conversations with Acclaimed Authors!

We were delighted to dig up these wonderful conversations
feat. Zadie Smith talking to some of our favorite writers
(Jeffrey Eugenides, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ann Patchett, MORE…)

*Scott Russell Sanders – Intro Reading Guide

Today (October 26th) marks the birthday of one of the most significant
living writers here in Indiana, Scott Russell Sanders. Best known for his essays,
Sanders has also written fiction, and picture books for children.
His work will be of interest to readers of Wendell Berry’s work.

 

From Our Archives... 

* Ten Up and Coming Women Writers for Christian Readers

One of the great challenges of the publishing industry in the twenty-first century is that it is overwhelmingly
dominated by white males. One small part of the necessary corrective measures is for all of us to buy and
read more books by authors who are not white males.  Toward this end, here is a list of ten up and coming
women writers, whose work you should be intimately familiar with. These women are not necessarily
young and many of them are well-established as writers, but by any reasonable estimation,
they all still have many years of writing ahead of them. Featuring Christena Cleveland, Rachel Held Evans, MORE