Marilynne Robinson Introduced by Paul Elie

Feb 20, 2018

In her new collection of essays, What Are We Doing Here?, award-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson (Housekeeping, Gilead, Home and Lila) trains her mind on the modern political climate and mysteries of faith, investigating how the work of thinkers such as Emerson and Tocqueville inform our political consciousness and discussing how beauty informs and disciplines daily life.

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