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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Molecular Moral Forces 7: Juvenilia
Nothing scrambles the distinction between inner and outer like family.
Nothing scrambles the distinction between inner and outer like family. At times they seem like hostile strangers. At other times they seem like external organs, like bi...
Why Do People Think Christians Fear First Contact?
Disclosure Day, on which I have a take forthcoming at my friend Bradley Brabendir’s newsletter this is a newsletter (it is, indeed, a newsletter), is a wonderful movie: I have not been so convinced by a Spielberg film in decades.1
At one p...
Molecular Moral Forces 6: Miss Maggie Mitchell in "Fanchon the Cricket"
Below, I have typed out in full Henry James, Jr.'s, first published piece of writing, a play review written in the first week of 1863. It is not widely or easily available on the internet. This fact in itself should strike us as odd; any gr...
Advice For Writers in Prison and Those Who Support Them
I used to edit a literary magazine where all the submissions were from people in Michigan prisons. It’s called (rather unimaginatively) The Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing and as of now it’s in the far more capable hands of my...
Platner Discourse Is Weird
If you don’t follow politics, there’s this guy who has a history of “spicy” Reddit opinions, a string of disturbing accusations from exes that don’t rise to the level of sexual abuse but do involve e.g. shoving (don’t shove women, fellows),...
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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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