What Noble Gossamers We Weave: Art, Religion, and The Coen Brothers
Mark Thomas ponders the anomalous fictions of the Coen Brothers' most religious films.
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Film Fiction Theatre Music PoetryMark Thomas ponders the anomalous fictions of the Coen Brothers' most religious films.
Manchester By The Sea, 2016. Directed by Kenneth Lonergan.
Lois Lowry, The Giver (Houghton Mifflin,1993; Ember Books, 2006)
Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock (Vintage Classics, 1931)
Sono Ayako, Miracles: A Novel, translated by Kevin Doak (MerwinAsia, 2016)
Anna Maria Mendell, The Golden Princess and the Moon (Angelico, 2016).
Two dystopian visions explore current fallacies about human love in a culture where flesh and spirit fail to connect.
Risen, 2016. Directed by Kevin Reynolds.
The Vessel, 2016. Written and Directed by Julio Quintana.
Jérôme Ferrari, The Sermon on the Fall of Rome (MacLehose Press, 2014).