"Center Point large print edition"

Freedom of thought -- Imagination and community -- Austerity as ideology -- Open thy hand wide: Moses and the origins of American liberalism -- When I was a child -- The fate of ideas: Moses -- Wondrous love -- The human spirit and the good society -- Who was Oberlin? -- Cosmology

Since the 1981 publication of Marilynne Robinson's novel, Housekeeping, she has built a sterling reputation not only as a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, but also as a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. In this new collection she returns to the themes which have preoccupied her work: the role of faith in modern life, the inadequacy of fact, and the contradictions inherent in human nature. Clear-eyed and forceful as ever, Robinson demonstrates once again why she is regarded as a modern rhetorical master