The novel is one of the great resistors of secularism, precisely because it is a secular art, author Christopher Beha said in a lecture hosted by the English department’s Visiting Writers Program. In his lecture on Oct. 17, “The Statues in the Temple: Notes on the Novel as a Secular Art,” the former editor-in-chief of...
Nick Tabor ’09 examined the decline of a community founded by freedmen who entered America on the last transatlantic slave ship in a lecture Monday. The English department and Dow Journalism Program hosted Tabor’s lecture, based on his book, “Africatown: America’s Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created.” Published earlier this year, the book...
September is drawing to a close, but for aspiring writers, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author Joy Williams’ visit to campus may be the opening of a new horizon. At 8 p.m. on Monday Williams will read from her work in Dow A & B. The following night at the same time, she will give a...
Ron Hansen, best known for writing fiction on the American West, will be speaking at Hillsdale College on Tuesday about Shakespeare’s impact on his writing and his recent visit to the Holy Land. The lecture will be in Dow Rooms A & B at 8 p.m., with a book signing and reception held after at...
I couldn’t resist: I picked up the book with the steamy makeout scene on the cover. I was wandering the library stacks, exploring the work of Hillsdale College’s next Visiting Writer. As yet, he was a mystery to me, and the “H” section of the fiction shelves only turned up more intrigue. The listings under...