Mirrored Longings
Melody Schwarting, Sarah Cooganbooks worth reading, ideas worth considering, beauty worth seeing
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The Unknown, Remembered Gate
Dear readers,
I’m thrilled to welcome Sarah Coogan to Mirrored Longings today! I thoroughly enjoy her work and know you will too.
Sarah Coogan is a scholar of twentieth-century poetry and the author of Nostalgia and National Identity in t...
Keeping the Feast
Yet this is not the end! I feel, Babette, that this is not the end.1
My personal Holy Saturday tradition is reading “Babette’s Feast” by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen, 1885-1962), quoted above. In 2025, I considered the cross in literature...
In Pride of Poetry
Ruth Pitter (1897-1992)1 began publishing poetry at the age of twelve. Her parents, both teachers, encouraged Pitter to read and memorize poetry from a young age, and she was inspired by the natural world, especially her family’s trips to H...
A Personal Oxford List
Oxford is a special place for many book lovers: the home of the creators of Narnia and Middle-earth, site of dozens of (fictional) murders, and host of an iconic library.
I studied abroad there in 2015, and over a decade later, this Januar...
Reading a Decade: The 1940s
N.B.: If this post is cut off for you in the email, click on the title to read the whole thing.
Quite by coincidence, I discovered that, in 2025, I read one book from each year of the 1940s. It was entirely unintentional—I only noticed aft...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Church historian, avid reader, worker with wool, rummager of the world for beauty. From the US, currently in Scotland.
I'm a Christian literary scholar, exploring how encounters with the beauty of the written word can draw us closer to God. Follow me here for reflections on the relationship between reading and faith, with special attention to 20th-century literature.
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