Phil Christman's public notebook--mostly about literature and the other arts, but also, frequently, about theology, politics, teaching writing, and university-related matters from a pro-labor perspective.
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Some Things I Think My New Glasses “Say” About Me
I got new glasses. First new pair since the pandemic. I actually really like them. I think they look good on me. They just have this slight unfortunate air of “he’s hot. he’s fresh. he’s quirky. he’s forty-eight” that nothing I do can fully...
The Research Process
In grad school I read Tristram Shandy and loved it.
In grad school I read Tristram Shandy and loved it. What I admire most about that book is the way it keeps throwing sand in the gears of its own narration. Where any other novel says "The...
Somehow, Author Returned
(The offending text.)
(Previously, on this subject. See also BDM and John.)
The literary world was rocked this week when Jamir Nazir, the author of the prize-winning, probably AI-generated short story “Serpent in the Grove” (which, unlik...
Molecular Moral Forces 4: Swedenborg
So now, in our runthrough of influences upon the James brothers, we must pause to talk about Emanuel Swedenborg, who is — unless you belong to one of the small para-Christian denominations that bears his name — one of those figures you prob...
Give These People Their Own Dedicated Library of America Volumes Immediately Or I Will _____, Volume 2
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—Marilynne Robinson, Writings of the 1980s, Essays of the 1990-2004, The Gilead Quartet, Writings of the 2000s-2010s.
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Author of "Why Christians Should Be Leftists" (Eerdmans, 2025), "How to Be Normal," and "Midwest Futures" (Belt, 2022 and 2020). Lecturer in the English Department Writing Program at University of Michigan.
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