Author: Aileen La Tourette

No Same River Twice

Aileen La Tourette goes back to church. OK, I went because I was desperate. Typical cliché return to Holy Mother Church post-devastation, post-tragedy. A counsel of despair, not an act of faith or renewal or...

Revisiting: Mark’s Gospel as Fiction

Aileen La Tourette revisits Mark’s Gospel, reading it as if it were fiction. When I began to think about this idea of reading Mark’s Gospel as fiction, I started with questions about fiction/imagination. Fiction is...

Review: A Horse Walks Into a Bar by David Grossman

A Horse Walks Into a Bar by David Grossman, translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen. Vintage (London 2017). Pbk. £8.99. When I was asked to review this book in seven hundred words, my first...

Kimonos in the Hospice Shop Window

oh let's donate the reckless blue kimono to the hospice, let someone on their last legs stand, sit or lie in it. Whatever gender, let's not be binary at this late date. Let's wrap it...

Ötzi

I look like fresh snowkill to you, an off-piste tourist. Jab and shovel. You snap a hip-bone whittled by time and ice to a classic angle: man caught between a rock and a hard place....

As We Were Saying… (Retrospective: Issues 1–10, 1990–1992)

Numbers with noughts on the end seem to entice us to look backwards, whether it’s the year 2000, a 10th anniversary… or just the 40th number of Sea of Faith magazine. So we’ve been blowing...

Stones and Bread

Review: Omens of Millennium, by Harold Bloom

Omen, Showman Aileen La Tourette finds Harold Bloom “howlingly elitist and politically incorrect” — but loves every word. Here she reviews his new book Omens of Millennium: the Gnosis of Angels, Dreams and Resurrection (Fourth...

Review: After Christianity by Daphne Hampson

And God Created Women My reaction to “After Christianity” surprised me. My sympathies with the text were not where I would have anticipated. They were not, broadly speaking, with Daphne Hampson’s theories of either Christianity...

Review: Conversations with Mona and Further Feline Conversations, by David Dulley

Escape Claws The world of Mr BADGER “Modern humans have inherited a cultural world that is like Mr Badger’s house in The Wind in the Willows, a vast warren of a place, excavated over many...