Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson is a novelist and essayist. Among her books are Gilead, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2005, and, most recently, Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness From the Modern Myth of the Self. She teaches at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and lives in Iowa City.

Articles

Night Thoughts of a Baffled Humanist (Essays, Books and the Arts)

Punitive yet salvific, austerity is the ideology of a country that has turned against its own culture.

Marilynne Robinson

Risk the Game: On William James (Biography, Philosophy)

For William James, all our certitudes depend on the pretense that there are no radical mysteries underlying them.

Marilynne Robinson

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