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1. www.nytimes.com › 2023/12/01 › booksBook Review: ‘Prophet Song,’ by Paul Lynch - The New York Times

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   Dec 1, 2023 · This week, the novel, by the Irish writer Paul Lynch, won the Booker Prize. The story is set in a version of contemporary Dublin. There’s a brief reference to a pandemic early on. Molly, the ...

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2. www.nytimes.com › 2023/03/24 › booksWhat American Literature’s Prophetic ... - The New York Times

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   Mar 24, 2023 · Prophetic utterance cuts through “numbness and denial,” Brueggemann writes, and speaks from outside sanctioned norms to articulate the people’s anguish and loss. Brueggemann calls this the ...

3. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2023/12/25Briefly Noted Book Reviews - The New Yorker

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   Dec 18, 2023 · About Ed, by Robert Glück (New York Review Books).The Ed of the title of this memoir, by a pioneer of the New Narrative movement, is Ed Aulerich-Sugai, the author’s ex-lover and longtime friend ...

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   Dec 11, 2023 · At times, the novel's relentless bleakness made it almost unbearable to read. And yet its plausibility kept me from looking away. There are passages in Prophet Song that echo with 2020's brutal ...

5. www.newyorker.com › news › daily-comment“1984” at Seventy: Why We Still Read Orwell’s Book of Prophecy

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   The postwar Sovietization of Eastern Europe produced societies right out of Orwell’s pages, but American readers responded to “1984” as a book about loyalty oaths and McCarthyism. In the ...

6. nytimes.pressreader.com › the-new-york-times-bookThe New York Times - Book Review - October 20, 2024

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   Oct 20, 2024 · Deep Currents. CONNIE A Memoir. Connie Chung Reports. Before the Attic, an Ominous Dreamscape. WHEN WE FLEW AWAY. Editors’ Choice Staff Picks From the Book Review. THE LIFE IMPOSSIBLE, by Matt Haig. (Viking. 324 pp. $30.) Paperback Row.

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   Why is prophetic utterance so powerful?

   • Prophetic utterance is so powerful because it disrupts the smooth functioning of society and state to describe a difficult reality. In his seminal work ‘The Prophetic Imagination’, biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann argues that this is because prophetic language is unbought and not circumscribed by any human power. In other words, it is expressed through poetry.

   What American Literature’s Prophetic Voices Tell Us About Ourselves

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   What is the definition of a prophetic figure?

   • In the conception that the prophetic figure is generally associated with foretelling the future, they are considered emissaries of God, charged with delivering a divine message. This message often concerns some contravention of God’s will and the coming moral and spiritual collapse.

   What American Literature’s Prophetic Voices Tell Us About Ourselves

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   What does the Prophet say about society?

   • In American Literature, the Prophet rails against any force that might encourage or benefit from the people’s failings, including temple and king. The prophet disrupts the smooth functioning of society and state to describe a difficult reality. Remember that you are a righteous people; act accordingly, and at some juncture, God’s favor will return.

   What American Literature’s Prophetic Voices Tell Us About Ourselves

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   Was America a utopian Tehom (in Morrison's novel)?

   • In Morrison’s novel, America's pre-America America was not a utopian Tehom. Instead, it was a violently contested Eden.

   What American Literature’s Prophetic Voices Tell Us About Ourselves

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   Did Isaiah prophesy a new branch from the stump of Jesse?

   • Isaiah prophesied about a new branch from the stump of Jesse. This means that the Israelites would be blessed with a messianic king to bring them out of exile and hopelessness. The narratives left by the enslaved, the novels of Poe, Morrison and Erdrich have not marooned us. On the contrary, they offer a light to help us see our beginnings more clearly.

   What American Literature’s Prophetic Voices Tell Us About Ourselves

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