Marilynne Robinson’s novels always leave me with a visceral impression of celestial light. Heavenly bulbs seem to switch on at climactic moments, showing a world as undimmed as it was at Creation. “I ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Marilynne Robinson is admired in Britain by those who appreciate her sparsely but beautifully written novels ...

There was a hymn we used to sing when I was a child, one of those lusty, murderous chants characteristic of the Anglican Church in its high-Victorian pomp. Written in 1894, it vibrates with imperial ...