Tara Isabella Burton
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RELIGION, THEOLOGY, and Culture
"
The Problem with Letting Therapy-Speak Invade Everything
"
and more in
The New York Times
"Rational Magic"
at
The New Atlantis
"What the Culture War Is Really About,"
"The Rise of Progressive Occultism"
& "
The Neo-Paganism of Jordan Peterson
" as a contributing editor at
The American Interest
"The Gospel According to Peter Thiel" at
City Journal
"
For Marianne Williamson and Donald Trump, religion is all about themselves
", "
Our Civil Religion is Capitalism
" and more at
The Washington Post
"
Bad Traditionalism
" at
Commonweal
"On Hope and Holy Fools"
at
The Hedgehog Review
"
Postliberal Epistemology"
at
Comment
"How Books Sap the Soul and Poison Readers with Ideas"
at
Aeon
"Apocalypse Whatever"
and "
Cult of One?
"at
Real Life
"Fear and Trembling in Las Vegas: The Street Preachers of Sin City
" at
Hazlitt.
"There's No Sharp Distinction Between Cults and Regular Religion"
at
Aeon
"Study Theology: Even if You Don't Believe in God"
at
The Atlanti
SHORT FICTION and PERSONAL ESSAYS
"I Know Thy Works
" at
Slate
"
I Have Seen the Future, Baby; It is Murder
" in
Granta
"
There Are Things Nobody Can Tell You About How to Live
"
at
Catapult
"
Here Comes Your Ghost Again"
in Vol. 1 Brooklyn
"
Dorian Gray is Having More Fun Than You"
at
Bookanista
"Laura"
at
Somesuch Stories
"Children Will Listen"
at Amazon's
Day One
"Things I Learned About Finance Bros by (Briefly) Dating a Finance Bro" a
t
The New Yorker's
Daily Shouts
"The Destroyer"
at
Tor.com
"Methods of Divination"
in
Shimmer
#19
TRAVEL and PLACE
"A Toast to Georgia"
,
"People-Watching in Paris"
, "
Gently Down the Stream
" and
more
at
National Geographic Traveler
"
Another Hundred People: the art of city walking"
at
Plough
"An American in Iran"
and
"Dancing to the Music of Time"
i
n
The Economist's 1843 Magazine
"Tbilisi: the Edge of the Real"
in
The Spectator
.
Winner of the
2012 Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize
.
"Italy's Most Beautifully Haunting City"
in
The Wall Street Journal