Philip Christman
Philip Christman teaches English at the University of Michigan and hosts the podcast I Needed a Pretext to Read Books.
Kamila Shamsie’s novel is filled with perfect coincidences
Of all the coffee joints frequented by all the British citizens-of-Pakistani-descent in all of Amherst, Massachusetts, she walks into his?
The rise and fall of Emmanuel Carrère’s faith
The Kingdom is a mess, but it refuses to be wholly dismissed.
Where are the dead?
Leonard DeLorenzo helps us envision where our loved ones have gone and how we relate to them.
Pedagogy of the embodied
Mark Jordan shows us Aquinas—and God—in the flesh.
A novel for frightening times
Han Kang’s main theme is the dignity and the cowardice that atrocity brings forth from people—often the same person.
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