Reading in a Boom Time of Biographical Fiction

Reading in a Boom Time of Biographical Fiction

Jay Parini on the Art of Inventing Real Life

By Jay Parini | August 21, 2019

When We Read the Bible as Literature, Do We Retain Its Truths?

When We Read the Bible as Literature, Do We Retain Its Truths?

Jay Parini on John Barton's New History of the Bible

By Jay Parini | June 6, 2019

The Wild Visionary at the Heart<br> of Early Christianity

The Wild Visionary at the Heart
of Early Christianity

Jay Parini on Paul, the Unlikely Founder of the Christian Church

By Jay Parini | April 19, 2019

The Time I Drank with Borges in a Scottish Pub

The Time I Drank with Borges in a Scottish Pub

Jay Parini Encounters Greatness Near the East Neuk of Fife

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Was Yeats'

Was Yeats' "The Second Coming" Really About Donald Trump?

How Poetry Transcends Political Crises Through Time

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