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Christmas Critics

William Storrar | Paul Elie | Nicholas Clifford | Ernest Rubinstein | Don Wycliff | Alice McDermott

Alice McDermott This year’s fuss over Harry Potter’s grand finale serves as a reminder of both our longing to glimpse some magic behind the veil of the familiar, and literature’s unquestioned right, and ability, to address that need. For all the children, and adults, who gorged themselves on the Potter tales this year, L. Frank Baum’s much neglected classic The Life and (...)


 

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William Storrar is director of the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey, and co-editor of Public Theology for the Twenty-First Century (T&T Clark Continuum).

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Paul Elie, an editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and author of The Life You Save May Be Your Own (FSG), is writing a book about the music of Bach in the age of recordings.

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Nicholas Clifford taught Chinese history at Middlebury College for many years, and lives in Vermont.

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Ernest Rubinstein is the theology librarian at Drew University and the author of Religion and the Muse: The Vexed Relation between Religion and Western Literature (SUNY Press, 2007).

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Don Wycliff, former public editor of the Chicago Tribune, teaches media criticism at the University of Notre Dame.

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Alice McDermott is the author of six novels, including Charming Billy, which won the National Book Award for fiction in 1998, and After This, a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize.

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