Christianity Today’s 2024 Book Awards
In case you didn’t catch them, CT has named its best books “most likely to shape evangelical life, thought, and culture.” It includes fiction and books for children.
The Life, Death—And Afterlife—of Literary Fiction
Much of this is a lament of the “good old days” when a certain kind of literature was in the “sensible” hands of magazine editors and then contrasts that to the worst of internet behavior. Surprise, though, literature does not end, and the new medium produces new forms–and in more democratic ways. “It’s as if etiquette has become ethics, and blasphemy a sin of secularity.” Ok, Boomer.
Should We Abolish Literary Genres
“Genre is a confining madness; it says nothing about how writers write or readers read, and everything about how publishers, retailers and commentators would like them to.” My answer, knowing its impossibility: Yes, abolish them.
An Intro to Digital Literature
Digital literature showcases “innovation and creativity in storytelling for digital media and new directions in contemporary literary practice informed by technology.”
Great Literature Lost?
Sure we have great literature. But let’s think a moment about what literature might never have survived. . . .
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