Literature
A Terrible Mercy Is Born
In Melville’s apocalypse, Starbuck refuses to meet Ahab’s evil with a loaded musket of his own.
Mercy Is for the Weak
On The Merchant of Venice, The Karate Kid, and the goodness of losing the whole world.
Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage
The Mockingbird Book Club — This Sunday with Stephanie Phillips