Given the dramatic and oft-noted rise of the religious "nones," Marilynne Robinson's sterling reputation and popularity as a novelist and essayistâ??not merely among Christians, but among critics and readers of every faith and no faithâ??is something of a surprise. Robinson's rigorous intellect is wedded to a profound appreciation of the human soul; her creative vision takes shape in relation to her Christian faith.
"I have read and loved a lot of literature about religion and religious experience â?? Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Flannery Oâ??Connor, the Bible," Mark O'Connell writes in The New Yorker, "but itâ??s only with Robinson that I have actually felt what it must be like to live with a sense of the divine."
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