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Tessa Carman writes from Mount Rainier, Maryland.
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Tessa CarmanBook Reviews
Julia Yost's exploration of the dark themes and failed marriages in Jane Austen's fiction is a rich reading of the great novelist's work.
Tessa CarmanCultureFormation
Hannah Rose Thomas's remarkable paintings remind us of the humanity of suffering people that are often so easy to forget or ignore.
Tessa CarmanFeatured
Rachel Cohen. The Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2020. 304 pp, $28. “We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been […]
Tessa CarmanFeaturedCultureCreation CareJournalJournal 3
How do we stay human in a technocratic age? How do we live rooted lives —spiritually and otherwise — in an unsettled time? How do we make sense of life in the modern world? English writer Paul Kingsnorth has been […]
Tessa CarmanFamilyCultureFormationJournalSpring 2025
All of life is education, regardless of what sort of formal schooling your children participate in.
Tessa CarmanFeaturedCreation Care
In Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the Places We’ve Left Behind (March 2021) Grace tells the story of her hometown of Emmett, Idaho, where her great-grandfather and great-grandmother lived and farmed, and where her grandparents and parents still live. Through […]
Tessa CarmanFeaturedCreation Care
Practicing resurrection in a technocratic, throwaway culture can begin with returning to the soil, where the death of the seed yields life.
Tessa CarmanBook Reviews
Plough's new anthology of Easter stories ably captures both the beauty of Easter and the surprising, even shocking, fact of Christ's resurrection.
Tessa Carmangeorge macdonaldBook Reviews
For those who have wondered why C.S. Lewis called George MacDonald “master,” this wisdom-rich anthology tells us why.
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The modern fairy tale cynically reduces all stories to a grasping after power. In so doing, it guts the genre of its beauty and liveliness.
