When I was a child I read books

In this new collection of incisive essays, Robinson returns to the themes which have preoccupied her work: the role of faith in modern life, the inadequacy of fact, the contradictions inherent in human nature.

Main Author: Robinson, Marilynne.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
Edition: 1st ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Freedom of thought
  • Imagination and community
  • Austerity as ideology
  • Open thy hand wide : Moses and the origins of American liberalism
  • When I was a child
  • The fate of ideas : Moses
  • Wondrous love
  • The human spirit and the good society
  • Who was Oberlin?
  • Cosmology.