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Pullman and Dante on the Afterlife

By Robin Bates | Published: July 15, 2023

Pullman, drawing on Dante, provides one of the most sustaining accounts of the afterlife that I know.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Adonais", "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep", "Upon Nothing", "World", Afterlife, Amber Spyglass, death and dying, Fragment of Seneca Translated, Henry Vaughan, His Dark Materials, John Donne, John Wilmot, Mary Elizabeth Frye, Percy Shelley, Philip Pullman | Comments closed

Obama as a Toni Morrison Character

By Robin Bates | Published: May 2, 2012

Perhaps some of the conservative antipathy to Obama is because he is seen as just taking over when he promised to work for social justice.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Barack Obama, Conservatives, John Wilmot, politics, Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison | Comments closed