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Hwee Hwee Tan: August 2001
Novelist Hwee Hwee Tan uses dialogue the way Bach used melodic lines, weaving disparate elements for the sheer fun of it—she blends the ancient and modern, Singaporean and British, high culture and low.
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Emilie Griffin: July 2001
It would be fair, in a rough and ready sort of way, to call Emilie Griffin a "spiritual writer," but the problem with that phrase is that it tends to give off what Patricia Hampl calls the "eau de cologne" smell of piety.
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William Dyrness: June 2001
William Dyrness is a scholar—there's no doubt about that. But his studies and publications have always been about the dramatic encounter between faith and human culture. In short, his scholarship is relevant to practicing artists because he cares about concrete, down-to-earth issues and approaches his work from an incarnational perspective.
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Kate Daniels: May 2001
Kate Daniels is a poet with a breathtaking range of interests and voices. She is able to give a voice to the passionate, ascetic intellectual Simone Weil and also write of the domestic felicities (and infelicities) of marriage, child-bearing, and child-raising.
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Mark Jarman: April 2001
Mark Jarman probably wouldn't think of himself this way, but he is a courageous man. And courage is a rare commodity at any time, and especially so in the small, competitive world of American literary culture.
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Issue 57
The sculpture of Richard Serra, Franz Wright on the Gospels, interview with Ron Hansen, fiction by Pinckney Benedict
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