Jay Parini

Jay Parini, a poet and novelist who teaches at Middlebury College, is most recently the author of The Way of Jesus: Living an Ethical and Spiritual Life.

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SOUL FOOD

Stanley Tucci’s Memoir Is More Than Just a Feast for Foodies

The actor’s account of his life doesn’t lack boldface names (Marcello Mastroianni once came to dinner), but a love of food and food culture are this story’s heart.

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INEXPLICABLE GENIUS

Nobody Illuminates Everyday Reality Better Than Shakespeare

In a wonderfully unacademic take on the Bard, Robert McCrum vindicates the claim that “Shakespeare’s words and ideas are part of our shared humanity.”

Jay Parini

ON THE ROAD

That Time I Chauffeured Jorge Luis Borges Around Scotland

Borges was one of the titans of world literature, but to a young American college student he was just a blind old man. As soon as they hit the road, that all changed.

Jay Parini

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'ALL OF THESE ARE ONE'

The (Possibly) Gay Apostle Who Believed in Radical Equality

Paul the Apostle is often branded as a patriarchal misogynist who hated all gays. But dig into his letters and you'll find an intense devotion to erasing all forms of oppression.

Jay Parini

ILLUMINATING

Wrestling with the Paradox of Jesus as Human and Divine

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is a poet, a public intellectual, and a cogent theologian—the perfect person to tackle Christianity's most enduring riddle.

Jay Parini

Jay Parini

Stanley Tucci’s Memoir Is More Than Just a Feast for Foodies

Nobody Illuminates Everyday Reality Better Than Shakespeare

That Time I Chauffeured Jorge Luis Borges Around Scotland

The (Possibly) Gay Apostle Who Believed in Radical Equality

Wrestling with the Paradox of Jesus as Human and Divine

Taking Back Christianity From The Religious Right

The High Art Wilson-Nabokov Cage Match

Time for Pols to Ditch the Hate Speech

Bill O'Reilly Kills Jesus All Over Again

Looking for Jesus in a Handful of Relics