Eve Tushnet

Eve Tushnet is the author of two nonfiction books, most recently Tenderness: A Gay Christian’s Guide to Unlearning Rejection and Experiencing God’s Extravagant Love, as well as two novels, Amends and Punishment: A Love Story.

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A Poet Pleads Insanity

Whether Ezra Pound is a fascist, a traitor, a madman, or a genius, Daniel Swift argues that he remains undiagnosable

By Eve Tushnet

February 7, 2018

Books

Poetry

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Fearful Grasping

Karen Zacarias wants to offer hope of reconciliation in an increasingly divided country, but the play’s very cheeriness is what makes it so depressing

By Eve Tushnet

November 2, 2017

Race

Domestic Affairs

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Love That Goes Unnamed

Part of the power of ‘Desert Hearts’ is that it is recognizably our world: the world in which gay people try to imagine our futures

By Eve Tushnet

October 19, 2017

Movies

Sexuality

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Common Hells, Private Heavens

Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell each has its own floor. Evoking horror, repentance and beatitude, more than 40 African artists exhibit a new look at Dante and divinity.

By Eve Tushnet

May 4, 2015

Domestic Affairs

Arts

Continuing the Conversation

Death and Dying

Media

Secularism and Modernity

Sexuality

Spirituality

Theology

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Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea

An exhibit pulls together an impressive collection of paintings, sculptures, and liturgical vestments to suggest the wide range of Marian images in Western art.

By Eve Tushnet

January 26, 2015

Arts

Spirituality

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Making Do

The men who tell their stories in 'Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City' know that they don’t look much like Ward Cleaver or Cliff Huxtable.

By Eve Tushnet

February 10, 2014

Books

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