Amy Peterson
Amy Peterson is the author of Where Goodness Still Grows: Reclaiming Virtue in an Age of Hypocrisy.
Miriam Toews explores religious trauma through the voice of a nine-year-old
Swiv isn’t an unreliable narrator, but she’s living in a world that feels unreliable.
by Amy Peterson
October 5, 2021
Lydia Millet’s A Children’s Bible is a believable climate fable
The dystopian novel feels about 15 minutes away from becoming reality.
by Amy Peterson
June 18, 2020
The virtue of kindness depends on who we see as kin.
by Amy Peterson
January 16, 2020 The anguish and ecstasy of the ark’s matriarch
Sarah Blake’s surrealist novel about Naamah—Noah’s wife—is mesmerizing.
by Amy Peterson
May 14, 2019
Is Jamie Quatro’s novel really about marital infidelity?
Maybe Fire Sermon is more fundamentally a parable about religion.
by Amy Peterson
May 23, 2018