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Aaron Mead

Wendell Berry's Jayber Crow on How to Find Your Calling

Wendell Berry's novel, Jayber Crow, gives clues about how to find your calling.

Aaron Mead

Were My Ancestors Pro-slavery Preachers?

Bishop William Meade, a pro-slavery preacher, may be my ancestor. My novel, Neither Slave nor Free, alters that shameful family story.

Aaron Mead

A Giacometti Portrait by James Lord: Giacometti Fixed My Head

James Lord's portrait of Alberto Giacometti helps understand artistic restlessness and discontent.

Aaron Mead

A Lesson in Anti-Racism: Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black

Washington Black suggests we should oppose racism not because it's morally wrong, but because we care about those who suffer from it.

Aaron Mead

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

As part of the research for my fiction project telling the backstory of Philemon in the New Testament, I recently read I, Claudius by...

Aaron Mead

Ahab’s Failure to Forgive

I’ve been reading Melville’s masterpiece Moby Dick and came across the following passage describing how Ahab’s mania for the great white...