Favorite Fictional Characters: Hamlet
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'To be or not to be, that is the question' voices an even more universal problem than King Lear's: not so much about…
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Favorite Fictional Characters: Edmund Pevensie
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In nostalgic conversations among friends over favorite childhood literary characters, I inevitably propose Edmund…
Favorite Fictional Characters: Lord Peter Wimsey
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At first sight, Dorothy L. Sayers’ character Lord Peter Wimsey, does not strike one as a particularly Christian…
Favorite Fictional Characters: John Wemmick
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Wemmick is a man divided. Divided between work and Walworth, where he lives out an idyllic denial of all that is…
Favorite Fictional Characters: Betsey Trotwood
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A common criticism of Dickens is that his female characters never rise above being two-dimensional. However amongst the…
Pieces of Work: Favorite Fictional Characters
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"What a piece of work is man..."
The Face of Human Dignity in the Novels of Fiorella de Maria
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The fiction of British-Maltese writer Fiorella De Maria depicts women in fierce struggle with the forces which…
Reminiscence in the Work of Kazuo Ishiguro
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Looking back is a notoriously tricky business. Memories can entrap us, or themselves become distorted in our attempts…
The Last Word on *Silence*
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As the Oscars pass Scorsese by, Mark Thomas thinks he knows why.
Table Matters: On St. Thomas, Tolkien and *Babette's Feast*
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Father Samuel Fontana reflects on how the pleasure of eating together engenders gratitude and builds community.