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Love, loss, and the limits of poetry: ‘Once in the West’ travels through suffering to faith
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Love, loss, and the limits of poetry: ‘Once in the West’ travels through suffering to faith

  If Christian Wiman’s life story is a journey, then “Once in the West” is the road map, drawn in a riot of color that seems to take on a life of its own. The poems rush by like signposts on the roadside in a blast of blurring imagery and syntax: “icequiet,” “stabdazzling,” “flashlit,” “slaughterhospice,”...

Alumna wins O. Henry: Genovise’s ‘Irises’ featured in 2016 O. Henry short story collection
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Alumna wins O. Henry: Genovise’s ‘Irises’ featured in 2016 O. Henry short story collection

  “I am eight weeks in the womb and my life is forfeit.” It is this fragile and powerful sentence that caught the attention of jurors and earned Elizabeth Genovise a place in the 2016 O. Henry Short Story Prize Collection. Genovise ’06, Hillsdale alumna and professor of English at Roane State Community College in...

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‘The Girls’: A Pity Party

  “Poor girls.” The refrain resonates, echoing with regret for generations of victims of circumstance. Simple and elegiac, the central phrase of “The Girls” mourns the unsung potential of women shattered by societal expectations. Emma Cline’s eagerly anticipated debut novel about a woman haunted by memories of the Manson murders earned a prominent place in...

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Rahe’s new book spars with typical view of Sparta

Professor of history Paul Rahe’s new book proves that the Spartans deserve more credit for shaping history than the action film “300” gives them. “The Spartan Regime: Its History, Character, and Origins,” which will be officially released Sept. 27 by Yale University Press, is Rahe’s second book in a projected four-volume series that provides an...

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Culture Corner

What’s the best book you read over the summer?Dutton Kearney, assistant professor of English: “Fobbit” is the best comic war novel since “Catch-22.” Aaron Andrews, junior English major: I read “The Wind in the Willows” every summer before starting school. It’s a children’s book about home, so it’s like going home in your mind. It’s...