Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Marilynne Robinson is admired in Britain by those who appreciate her sparsely but beautifully written novels ...

In the beginning, the Rev. Jim Wehner began reading aloud from the Bible on Notre Dame Seminary's front lawn. As cars rumbled by on South Carrollton Avenue, the rector of the seminary tackled the ...

Considering how often the Bible is characterized as a great work of literature, it is rarely read like one. Few would suggest a piecemeal approach to Crime and Punishment, jumping from chapter to ...

Unperturbed by debates over the book’s relationship to modern thought, she helps us appreciate its marriage of literary structure and theological claims. In her latest book, Reading Genesis, Marilynne ...

What is there still to say about a text that is thousands of years old and has been translated into over 700 languages? That has been painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, carved in marble, ...

Hailing from northern Idaho – the American frontier – Marilynne Robinson is among our most revered living novelists. Her debut, Housekeeping (1980), received critical acclaim, but it was the Pulitzer ...

Genesis, Chapter 1 You’d think God would know exactly what He’s doing, but He doesn’t. He’s a tinkerer. He tries something out—what if I move all the water around so dry land can appear? He checks it ...