2008

• Returning to the Past 10/26/08
• Listen to the Music 10/12/08
• The Soil of Literary Fertility 10/05/08
• The Paradox of Banned Books Week 09/28/08
• For Whom the Bell Tolls 09/21/08
• Two Books by Writers You Know—or Should Know 09/07/08
• The Old Guys of American Literature 08/31/08
• Rock and Roll (and Jazz, and Country) is Here to Stay 08/24/08
• More Bookstores I Have Known 08/10/08
• Bookstores I Have Known 08/03/08
• The Price of Genius 07/27/08
• Letter to a Young Writer 07/20/08
• Why Read Kafka? 07/13/08
• The Philosopher's Stone 07/06/08
• The Poetry of Scripture 06/29/08
• Out of This World 06/22/08
• An Ocean of Books 06/15/08
• What I Picked Up at BEA 06/08/08
• Nobel Lectures 06/01/08
• Changing the World, One Book at a Time 05/25/08
• Breaking Open the Frozen Sea of Kafka 05/18/08
• Confession of a Book Reviewer 05/11/08
• A Rush to Judgment 05/04/08
• Fragmentation: An Attitude or a Choice? 04/27/08
• Remembering Nathan Scott 04/20/08
• Unnatural Bedfellows: Politics and Religion in an Election Year 04/13/08
• The New Death of God 04/06/08
• The Hermitage Journals 03/30/08
• A Return to Paradise Lost 03/23/08
• Great Books From Different Traditions: France: Camus 03/16/08
• Great Books From Different Traditions: France: Proust 03/09/08
• Great Books From Different Traditions: France: Balzac 03/02/08
• Great Books From Different Traditions: France (II) 02/24/08
• Great Books from Different Traditions: France (I) 02/17/08
• Great Books From Different Traditions: Christian 02/10/08
• Returning to the Past 02/03/08
• The Death of Literary Criticism 01/27/08
• God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut 01/20/08
• At the Intersection of Violence and Religion 01/13/08
• The Biggest Cocktail Party in Town 01/06/08

2007

• Religion Meets the Public Sphere 12/30/07
• On Literary Treasures 12/23/07
• The Man Behind the Scenes 12/16/07
• Where Would Jesus Live? 12/09/07
• Warming a Winter's Night 12/02/07
• How Will We Have Faith? 11/25/07
• Of the Making of Many Bibles There Is No End 11/18/07
• Giving Updike His Due 11/11/07
• Hey, Buddy; Come on In 11/04/07
• Painting Tales 10/28/07
• Take Up and Read 10/21/07
• Changing the World, One Book at a Time (Part II) 10/07/07
• Changing the World, One Book at a Time 09/30/07
• Remembrance of Books Past 09/23/07
• Genius, Genius; Who Has the Genius? 09/16/07
• But We Need the Eggs 09/09/07
• The Air Castle of the South 09/02/07
• An Ozarks Prospero 08/26/07
• Did Jesus Read Homer? 08/19/07
• Unsettling Berry 08/12/07
• Uncovering the Layers of a Life 08/05/07
• 25 Years Ago Today 07/29/07
• Out of This World 07/22/07
• Going Back to Bypass 07/15/07
• Remembering Rorty 07/08/07
• Sunshine Dreams 07/01/07
• Singing His Fathers' Songs 06/24/07
• Riding on the Dixie Express 06/17/07
• The Sound of Silence 06/10/07
• Summer Reading 06/03/07
• Breathing Life into Literature 05/27/07
• Time is on His Side 05/20/07
• The Soul of a Song 05/13/07
• The Return of the Invisible Man 05/06/07
• Kick Out the Jams 04/29/07
• Challenge and Wisdom 04/22/07
• Religion Meets the Public Sphere 04/15/07
• Some Perils of the Reading Life 04/08/07
• Riding on the Dixie Express 04/01/07
• The Jilting of Katherine Anne Porter 03/25/07
• Winter Reflections 03/18/07
• Looking for God in Moby-Dick 03/11/07
• Homage to Auden 02/25/07
• Pulling Back the Curtain 02/11/07
• Breathing Life into Literature 02/04/07
• Illuminating a Life of Truths 01/28/07
• A Family's Tale 01/14/07
• The Great American Novel, Part 3 01/07/07

2006

• A Tale of Biblical Proportions 12/31/06
• How Will We Have Faith? 12/24/06
• A Look Back at the Year in Books, Part 2 12/17/06
• A Look Back at the Year in Books: 12/10/06
• Of the Making of Many Bibles There Is No End 12/03/06
• Singing His Father's Songs 11/19/06
• Take Up and Read 11/12/06
• Waking Henry Roth 11/05/06
• An Ozarks Prospero 10/29/06
• What's In a Name? 10/22/06
• Call Me Herman Melville 10/15/06
• What Would Jesus Read? 10/08/06
• Peering Into the Magic Barrel 10/01/06
• Riding on the Dixie Express 09/24/06
• The Jilting of Katherine Anne Porter 09/17/06
• The Her of His & Her 09/10/06
• The Newness of the Old 09/03/06
• Judgments in Reading 08/20/06
• Fragmentation: An Attitude or a Choice? 08/13/06
• Breathing Life into Literature 08/06/06