num_pages: 336
description: New essays on theological political and contemporary themes by the Pulitzer Prize winnerMarilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels including Lila  winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and Gilead  winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this new essay collection she trains her incisive mind on our modern political climate and the mysteries of faith. Whether she is investigating how the work of great thinkers about America like Emerson and Tocqueville inform our political consciousness or discussing the way that beauty informs and disciplines daily life Robinsons peerless prose and boundless humanity are on full display. What Are We Doing Here? is a call for Americans to continue the tradition of those great thinkers and to remake American political and cultural life as deeply impressed by obligation [and as] a great theater of heroic generosity which despite all is sometimes palpable still.
language: English
title: What Are We Doing Here?
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux