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Amanda Parrish Morgan

Amanda Parrish Morgan  is at work on a collection of essays examining shame and forgiveness in motherhood through literature.

The Givers

The Givers

On this Mother’s Day, let’s acknowledge the power of those who offer both professional and domestic care

by Amanda Parrish Morgan | Friday, May 08, 2020
That Common Heart

That Common Heart

Finding unity and faith in the fiction of Marilynne Robinson

by Amanda Parrish Morgan | Wednesday, March 14, 2018
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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

A Tale of War and Forgetting

by Neil Shea

In honor of Memorial Day this Monday, we’re revisiting this powerful essay from contributing editor Neil Shea, written just after the centennial of the First World War. Shea reflects on the war through the lens of Impressionist painting— viewed up close, he writes, “there is bravery and blindness, splinters of bone and steel, mud, horror, cacophony.” As time goes on, however, we risk seeing the war “as a vague event portrayed in colors that seem almost quaint.”