Abstract
Since Donald Trump's election, a lot of Americans have become nostalgic for the country we used to be, and Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Marilynne Robinson is well-suited to this era. Back in September 2015, Robinson and Obama met and delved into favorite liberal topics like cable news, political polarization, and Iowa values. Robinson's new book is very much in this vein. Against any human intellectual efforts, which must always fall short, she celebrates "complexity," by which she means the irreducible complexity of human experience and of the world. But in her latest collection of essays, what's so weird is that she just doesn't seem curious about anything but theology. The way Robinson wishes us to act will never get us the America she wants, no matter how beautiful her renderings of neighborliness might be.
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