Never Mind

Marilynne Robinson (Gilead) is, of course, a gifted novelist and a highly-regarded mentor at the University of Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop. She is no stranger to nonfiction, having published two collections of essays, Mother Country and The Death of Adam. Now comes Absence of Mind (Yale University Press) in which she attempts to reconcile scientific reasoning with religious faith and various prickly concerns in intellectual history.

In Thinking Again: What Do We Mean by Mind, Robinson offers:

A good chunk of this book is taken from Robinson’s 2009 Terry Lectures at Yale and is available in video form.