Jack Hanson

Jack Hanson is a doctoral candidate at Yale University. His writing has appeared in the Hopkins Review, Kenyon Review Online, PN Review, the Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere.

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A Serious Man

Charles Péguy’s writing rethought the very terms available to describe experience, the visible and vanishing foundations of living.

By Jack Hanson

May 3, 2021

Philosophy

Nonfiction

Book Essay

Article

Poem | Moon-made

It had something to do with the sea, some sense / of welcome and reproach

By Jack Hanson

May 20, 2019

Poetry

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Reckoning with Guantánamo

The continued existence of Guantánamo Bay is unconscionable. So is the fact that it was ever opened in the first place.

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Religion

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In Awe of All People

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Books

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